“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Die glücklichen Pessimisten! Welche Freude empfinden sie, so oft sie bewiesen haben, daß es keine Freude gibt.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.

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