Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ― Markus Zusak

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ― Milan Kundera

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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë

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You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve ― Elon Musk

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