“Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.”

Variant: “It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Source: Le Jardin des supplices

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French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, … 1848–1917

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