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Paul Bourget was French novelist and literary critic. Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment

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“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.”
— Paul Bourget
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“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy”
— Paul Bourget
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“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.”
— Paul Bourget
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“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”
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“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
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“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.”
— Paul Bourget
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