True happiness is only a distant longing for the past, and yet a nostalgia which never really occurred. Only that you thought it did manifests its being. So to set it in the future and desiring it as a prospect is only a vain effort, and an inevitable mistake to replace 'success' with 'happiness'.
Oryx and Crake
Contemplation, introspection, and monologues…
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