4,580 Quotes About Joy


  • Author Seth Dickinson
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    We all force our true selves into little hashes and show them like passwords. A smile is a hashing function, and a word, and a cry. The cry is not the grief, the word is not the meaning, and smile is not the joy: we cannot run the hash in reverse, we cannot get from the sign to the absolute truth. Maybe the smile is false. Maybe the grief is a lie.

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  • Author Gerald Murnane
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    ...our joys and pleasures are only a compromise between our wants and our circumstances.

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