Happiness

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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Epicurus. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 128.

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Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 128.

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Euripides. Ἄλκηστις [Alcestis]. 438 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Alcestis." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Hercules, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1745.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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Einstein, Albert. "Freiheit und Wissenschaft [Freedom and Science]." 1940.

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Einstein, Albert. "On Freedom." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library/Open Road, 2015, ch. 6.

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Madison, James. "Republican Distribution of Citizens." National Gazette, 3 Mar. 1792.

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Madison, James. Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

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Ibsen, Henrik. Vildanden [The Wild Duck]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1884, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "The Wild Duck." An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm, translated by James McFarlane. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Candida." 30 Mar. 1894, Theatre Royal, South Shields, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Candida. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

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Krishnamurti, U. G. Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U. G. Dinesh, 1988.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1766," aetat. 57.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 15 Apr. 1823.

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Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

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Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 280.

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Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

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Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Paramount Vantage/River Road Entertainment/Square One C.I.H./Linson Film, 2007.

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Wharton, Edith. "The Last Asset." The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.

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Gide, Andre. La Porte Etroite [Strait is the Gate]. Mercure de France, 1909, ch. 5.

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Gide, Andre. Strait is the Gate. Penguin Books, 2001, ch. 5.