"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right."
-Quentin Crisp
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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.“
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