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Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that ...more

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vic...more

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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it p...more

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Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steele...more

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...