“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27
“The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (April 13, 1895)
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
Also attributed to Sophocles in "Oedipus The King".
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
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Part 5, XXXVII
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(1887–1964) British poet
Still Falls the Rain (1940)
Context: See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament:
It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart
That holds the fires of the world, — dark-smirched with pain
As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man
Was once a child who among beasts has lain —
"Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."
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“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
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“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”
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