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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. - Gust

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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work
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I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. – Diane Lane

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. – Michael J. Fox

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I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell

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Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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