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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

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We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

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My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of perserving certain moments for prosperity , and as time moved forwards ...more

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...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one roo...more

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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. W...more

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the ho...more

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more

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The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there...more

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This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in the...more