She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface.

—Diane Chamberlain in The Lost Daughter

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About Diane Chamberlain

Diane Chamberlain is an American author of adult fiction. Chamberlain is in the New York Times, USA Today and Sunday Times lists of bestselling authors, having published 30 novels in more than twenty languages.

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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

—Olive Schreiner

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