“Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) Irish journalist and rogue
Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 21, p. 254.
“What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”
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