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“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“This one is particularly beautiful and profound, straight from the heart. When I first read it, I loved the fact that he needs solitude and time to think about Milena, but then when I read it the second time, something else struck me: when he says his office job is boring, his flat is stupid, but he feels he must not complain about his everyday reality because Milena is part of it too, and the gratefulness he feels for that: this moment which belongs to you:”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka“ “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.””
The Cherry Orchard • Anton Chekhov“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck“Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero