Pascal Bruckner Quotes
The Western Cult Of Happiness Is Indeed A Strange Adventure, Something Like A Collective Intoxication. In The Guise Of Emancipation, It Transforms A High Ideal Into Its Opposite. Condemned To Joy, We Must Be Happy Or Lose All Standing In Society. It Is Not A Question Of Knowing Whether We Are More Or Less Happy Than Our Ancestors; Our Conception Of The Thing Itself Has Changed, And We Are Probably The First Society In History To Make People Unhappy For Not Being Happy.
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