Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
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She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
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She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.