“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
Source: To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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