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“Beauty meant that you were good. And being good meant being happy. Happiness can be defined all kinds of ways, but human beings, consciously or unconsciously, are always pulling for their own version of happiness. Even people who want to die see death as a kind of solace, and view ending their lives as the only way to make it there. Happiness is the base unit of consciousness, our single greatest motivator.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near. Excuse the bad writing and excuse the emotional overflow. What I mean to say, perhaps, is that, in a way, I am never empty of you; not for a moment, an instant, a single second.”
― Virginia Woolf

“for him she felt so much compassion; — for lucy very little — and it cost her some pains to procure that little; for the rest of the party none at all”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl