"It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!"
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"Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?"
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"I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time."
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"Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'"
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"Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation."
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"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time."
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"A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables"
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""Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul."
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"I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times."
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"It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist"
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"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience."
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"It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy."
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"There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it."
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"Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy."
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"Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy."
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"The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will."
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"After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things."
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""I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades."
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"I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]"
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"A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student."
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