For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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