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“If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.”
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“... who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?”
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“... that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ”
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“You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.”
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“Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.”
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“Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”
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“Why did people ask 'What is it about?' as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
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“... why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying — no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ...”