“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
Nine Stories (1953), De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)
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John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
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Robert B. Laughlin (1950) American physicist
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