Book 1 part 1, ch. 23
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)
“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
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Osamu Dazai 39
Japanese author 1909–1948Related quotes
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
On amplifie également le malheur et le bonheur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit.
Modeste Mignon http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Modeste_Mignon (1844), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. XXIV: The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well