"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it."
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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.“
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