You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
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