In the 1997 Random House edition of Into the Wild, the quotation you mention is on page 191. Of course, as you can see here, by reading both of these responses, the different editions contain different page numbers.
Further, if you have an online edition or one for the kindle (for example) or other eReader, there may not be a page number at all! (That is because with an eReader you are able to search for certain words throughout the entire book.)
I thought it might help you even more to put the tiny quotation into the greater context and include an explanation:
“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.... And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.”
Happiness, then, can only be achieved when merging experiences of life with the experiences of others and having "a life similar" to others. In essence, this is a part of the text about sharing that happiness and is one of the most important quotes from the book.
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