“Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.”
Jack Vance book Emphyrio
Source: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 5
“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Der allgemeine Ueberblick zeigt uns, als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Glückes, den Schmerz und die Langeweile.
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