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And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and sometimes it is the last person we should fall in love with. Our involuntary choice…

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“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid…

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“Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.”

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Many people see happiness only in their future.

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“He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways…

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The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

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Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there…

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“(Be very wary of people who declare that they’re going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.)”

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People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases…

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I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist,…

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“The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day…

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“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”

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“Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a…

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