Happiness Quote by Brian W. Aldiss

“Life on the big slope was endurable, and sometimes more than just endurable, for the human spirit was a genius for making mountains out of molehills of happiness.” quote by Brian W. Aldiss — Download Open image

““Life on the big slope was endurable, and sometimes more than just endurable, for the human spirit was a genius for making mountains out of molehills of happiness.””

Brian W. Aldiss

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“Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.”

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“Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as much shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames; objectively, many of them held only misery, fear, confusion; but afterwards, and even at the time, he had known an exhilaration stronger than the misery, fear, or confusion. A fragment of belief came to him…

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“Perhaps that had been one of the ineradicable faults of mankind - for even a convinced atheist had to admit there were faults - that it was never content with a thing as a thing; it had to turn things into symbols of other things. A rainbow was never only a rainbow; a storm was a sign of celestial anger;…

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“It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.”

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