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“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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