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• The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Memories, Men

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• Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Numbers, Sorrow

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• Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Felt

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.470, e-artnow

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• It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

  Agatha Christie

  Crime Novels, Make You Happy, Miss Marple

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Murder Preferred: Including: The Patriotic Murders; A Murder is Announced; Murder in Retrospect”

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

  Groucho Marx

  Positive, Good Morning, Happiness

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• People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Clever, Being In Love, Men

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

  Philippa Gregory

  Want Something, Desire, Firsts

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

  Bella Pollen

  Heart, Smell, Skins

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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• He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Light, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

  Marcel Proust

  Moral

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.225, Yale University Press

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• Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

  Iris Murdoch

  Artist, Stories, Want

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.19, Penguin

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• But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

  L. Frank Baum

  Kings, Heart, Eye

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.

  Nicholas Evans

  Thinking, Feet, Choices

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• I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Book, Thinking

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Writing, Gay

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• It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

  Stephen King

  Hard Life, Ifs, Steadfastness

  Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

  Alan Bennett

  Contentment, Not Happy

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Taken, Made, Importance

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

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• Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Divorce, Able

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• She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

  Ann Brashares

  Wish, Made, Inclination

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.133, Random House

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• Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, People, Car

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• Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Thinking, Percent

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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• As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

  Charles Baxter

  Couple, Real, Stories

  Charles Baxter (2000). “The Feast of Love”, Pantheon

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