For even when sad, I remember my times of joy, like a wretched person thinking of the happy life. It is never by bodily sense that I have seen my joy or heard or smelt or tasted or touched it.
 Saint Augustine, Confessions (401). copy citation

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Author Saint Augustine
Source Confessions
Topic joy life
Date 401
Language English
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Note Translated by Henry Chadwick
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