“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good not evil. It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness. One never reaches happiness.”
“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”
“It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it's not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”
“The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?”