All great noise leads us to move happiness into some quiet distance. When a man stands in the midst of his own noise, in the midst of his own surf of plans and projects, then he is apt also to see quiet, magical beings gliding past him and to long for their happiness and seclusion
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation

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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Source The Gay Science
Topic happiness past
Date 1882
Language English
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Note Translated by Walter Kaufmann
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