“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?”
Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 11, p. 90
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