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

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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 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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To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see noth...more

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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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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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No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three li...more

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But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happines...more