Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness

Author

Robert Frost

Source

A Witness Tree

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

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Medium
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Time
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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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The little things Happiness

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Source
Zorba the Greek
Medium
Novel
Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

Another quote from 1942

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Millar

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Conversation
Speaker
Prye

Author

Margaret Millar
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Millar, Margaret. The Weak-Eyed Bat. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942, ch. 8.