“To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?”
Jin Shengtan (1610–1661) Chinese writer
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?”
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
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