Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
Independence is happiness.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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