Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
Northanger Abbey
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
_she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever_
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.
You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!
Well, evil to some is always good to others.