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		<title>BOOKS AND HAPPINESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; &#8220;You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.&#8221; Anonymous Girl Reading Edmund Tarbell &#8211; circa 1909 &#160;</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.&#8221;<br />
Anonymous</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Girl Reading<br />
Edmund <a href="https://www.passionforpaintings.com/en/art-gallery/edmund-c-tarbell-painter">Tarbell</a> &#8211; circa 1909</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.&#8221; Anais Nin Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;If  what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i  will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge,  experience, and creation.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Anais Nin</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer</p>
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― Jonathan Safran Foer</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.&#8221; Anais Nin</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://moniquespassions.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flowernin.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1958" title="flowernin" src="http://moniquespassions.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flowernin.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="246" srcset="https://www.moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flowernin.jpg 350w, https://www.moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flowernin-300x211.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a>&#8220;A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by  the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task  of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.&#8221;<br />
Anais Nin</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.&#8221; Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His &#8220;Tractatus theologico-politico&#8221; defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), JJuedischer Philosoph. Deutsche Schule.  Wolfenbuettel, Germany]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://moniquespassions.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1809" title="spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949" src="http://moniquespassions.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="385" srcset="https://www.moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949.jpg 550w, https://www.moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949-510x357.jpg 510w, https://www.moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spinoza110314-thumb-550x385-1949-300x210.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /></a>&#8220;All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His &#8220;Tractatus theologico-politico&#8221; defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), JJuedischer Philosoph. Deutsche Schule.  Wolfenbuettel, Germany]</p>
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