„Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„… the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.“
— Fernando Pessoa