Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
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