“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
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“It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.”
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. X, p. 268
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 29
“Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.”
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Context: There are two godheads: the world and my independent I.
I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist.
A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.
A Happy Death (1971)
