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Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

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What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacula...more

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Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...more

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, '...more