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“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
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“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.” - Some Hope”
― Some Hope
― Some Hope
“He hated happy families with their mutual encouragement, and their demonstrative affection, and the impression they gave of valuing each other more than other people.”
― Bad News
― Bad News
“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.”
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“It’s the hardest addiction of all,’ said Patrick. ‘Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”
― At Last
― At Last
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