“Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 6
Context: While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.

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