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BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

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Books and Happiness

 

“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”
Anonymous

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Edmund Tarbell – circa 1909

 

ANAIS NIN ~ ON HAPPINESS

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“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”

Anais Nin

Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ~ ON THINKING

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“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

ANAIS NIN ~ POETICAL HAPPINESS

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“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
Anais Nin

BARUCH SPINOZA ~ ON BEING HAPPY

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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.

(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), JJuedischer Philosoph. Deutsche Schule.  Wolfenbuettel, Germany]

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