“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

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The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

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A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 120

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Jared Jordan
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Source: Hiss of Death

Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Context: Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom... There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

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Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Exactly.”
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)