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Brief author info: Maria-Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) Chilean novelist, short story writer, and essayist; upon publication of first novel, La ultima niebla (The final mist), was acknowledged as one of the leading members of the avant-garde literary movement; wrote numerous other novels, essays, and short stories. Work shows conservative feminist ideology prevalent among upper-class Latin Americans in the 1930s and 1940s; later work explores female archetypes.

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It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

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Unhappiness Quote

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

- Marilyn Monroe

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

- Maya Angelou

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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