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"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
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"Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What did he, that most devoted friend, know about Stravinsky's capacity to love? And where did he get his utter certainty that the heart is ethically superior to the brain? Are not vile acts committed as often with the heart's help as without it? Can't fanatics, with their bloody hands, boast of a high degree of "affective activity"? Will we ever be done with this imbecile sentimental Inquisition, the heart's Reign of Terror?"
Morality

"Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul, the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice."
Romance

"The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future."
Literature

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Happiness

"All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests."
Solitude

"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
Novel

"It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made."
Prejudice

"Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love."
Loyalty

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."
Time

"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."
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Personal Development

"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
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"Each day should be a day of rejoicing. Give thanks and celebrate in all things."
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
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"It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression."
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Personal Development

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
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Personal Development

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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Personal Development

"You can love again."
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Personal Development

"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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Personal Development
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