“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
“The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.”
"Lies" (1952), line 11; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 52.
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