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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe. — Franz Kafka
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks. — Michel Houellebecq
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. — Alice Walker
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to… — Neil Gaiman
I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well. — Karl Lagerfeld
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage… — Henry Jenkins
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This… — Farid al-Din Attar
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. — Victor Hugo
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is… — Hermann Hesse
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. — Lauren Conrad
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try… — Albert Camus
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its… — Noam Chomsky
Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have… — Cormac McCarthy
The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is… — Brandon Sanderson
Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me… — Chelsea Cain
We may both be bad, but thereâ€™s a huge difference between usâ€”Iâ€™m not content with being this way. — Veronica Roth
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. — Neil Gaiman
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are. — James Mackintosh

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