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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained,...more

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purpose...more

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For I am you and you are I.

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What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacula...more

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Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

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Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-bu...more

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...more

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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflic...more

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, '...more