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Euphoria
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Seeking to eliminate pain nonetheless puts it at the heart of the system. As a result, today we suffer from not wanting to suffer just as one can make oneself ill by trying to be perfectly healthy. Furthermore, we now tell ourselves a strange fable about a society completely devoted to hedonism, and for which everything becomes an irritation, a torture. Unhappiness is not only unhappiness;
it is, worse yet, a failure to be happy.
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― Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
― Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
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Love is a feeling validated by series of kind actions. When the initial euphoria of love wanes, the series of kind actions validates the love.
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