"Dry happiness is like dry bread. We..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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More on Happiness

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More on Desire

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
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— Arthur Schopenhauer
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