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To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and ...more

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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not f...more

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulne...more

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She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

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What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

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Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

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I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of a thousand lost sensations. The fact that...more