Quote by August Strindberg
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, i

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. – August Strindberg

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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. – August Strindberg

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People who keep dogs are cowards who havent got the guts to bite people themselves. – August Strindberg

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. – August Strindberg

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. – Norman Lear

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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. – Jose Marti

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