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Novelist 1984Related quotes

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
Variant: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 95
Context: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.