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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you lo...more

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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A cal...more

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A cal...more

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...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking eve...more