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On Happiness

Siobhan Lyons argues that contemporary culture’s obsession with happiness is unhealthy in a variety of ways.

“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish author and philosopher

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
– Marcel Proust

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love.

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