Quote from Petek Kabakci
I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Quote from Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life
Don’t change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so… When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get back again, which would be a difficult task ever for you…
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Quote from Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn’t notice.
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Quote from Jean Anouilh, Antigone
I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life–that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness–provided a person doesn’t ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!
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Quote from Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
If I could bottle this exact feeling I have right now, and sell it, I’d make millions.” I said to Chet”Well, unfortunately for you, but luckily for every other adult, someone already has. They called it alcohol.
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Quote from Barbara Kingsolver
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had – a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they’d sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn’t occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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