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“she loves to feel the sun on her skin the winter in her eyelashes and to hear his laughter all day long.”
“He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.”
“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
“Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.”
“Some sleepers have intelligent faces even in sleep, while other faces, even intelligent ones, become very stupid in sleep and therefore ridiculous. I don't know what makes that happen; I only want ...”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish fo...”
“Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon aga...”
“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”
“They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. ...”
“Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, pee...”
“He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champa...”
“He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.”
“Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!”
“...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.”