““Is he then an unhappy man?”
Poirot said:
“So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.”
The nun said softly:
“Ah, a rich man…””

— Agatha Christie, book The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

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