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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak"
- August Strindberg
Happiness
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August Strindberg
between January 22, 1849 and May 14, 1912. He/she was a famous
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