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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
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“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
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“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love -- first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Today he understood that she had been genuine with him -- that she had been what she was, and that he owed her a good deal.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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