Villette
by Charlotte Brontë, Mallory Ortberg · first published 2012
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.” - said Lucy Snow in the novel, Villette, by Charlotte Bronte.
on “A simple way to feel happier, according to the new science of emotion” ↗