“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) French poet
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“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
Source: Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits
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Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves
Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)
