In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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