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“For twenty years I’ve been unable to have the experience of certain happiness. This life which
devours me — I won’t have known it to the full, and what frightens me about death is the certainty
it will bring me that my life has been consummated without me. I will have lived … marginally
— do you understand?”
―
devours me — I won’t have known it to the full, and what frightens me about death is the certainty
it will bring me that my life has been consummated without me. I will have lived … marginally
— do you understand?”
―
“You see, Mersault, all the misery and cruelty of our civilization can be measured by this one
stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”
― A Happy Death
stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”
― A Happy Death
“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Most
men cannot even prove they are not mediocre.”
― A Happy Death
men cannot even prove they are not mediocre.”
― A Happy Death
“line between hunger and anger is a thin line.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“But if you’re happy here, why are you leaving?” Catherine had asked.
“There’s the risk of being loved, little Catherine, and that would keep me from being happy.”
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“There’s the risk of being loved, little Catherine, and that would keep me from being happy.”
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