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" The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. "
Ogden Nash
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" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "
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" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "
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" My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. "
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" Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. "
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