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I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by drag...more

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Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , tha...more

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

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My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as...more

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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

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Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate th...more

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we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

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Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of ou...more

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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must ...more

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After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for th...more