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…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Roberto Bolaño
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1953 to 2003; Wikidata Q297532, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297532 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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