"Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world."
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"Don't ever confuse motion with progress."
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"I know what happiness is, for I have done good work."
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"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity."
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"Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on."
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"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall."
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"But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies."
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"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
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"To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire."
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"O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!"
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"The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year."
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"I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking."
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"There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward."
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"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child."
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"Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories."
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"But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life."
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"His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object."
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"And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought."
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