#2,563

The opposite of the absurd is not reason but happiness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,493

The man who wants to avoid grotesque collapses should not look for anything to fulfill him in space and time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 401

#2,110

Happiness walks barefoot.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 341

#1,750

Everything that has value in the world is incongruous to it, and the world does not drag it along into the sunset.
Our past happinesses await us at the end of the day’s journey to anoint our injured feet.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,517

Happiness is the prickly flower of intelligent resignation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 254

#1,368

To the happiness of those we love most we are allowed to contribute only a silent tenderness and an impotent compassion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,233

A voice drunk with happiness is a fact that reveals secrets about the very substance of the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,148

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 202

#1,065

There was never any happiness so free of threats that we would dare live it again.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#704

The gods punish not the pursuit of happiness but the ambition to forge it with our own hands.
The only licit desire is for something gratuitous, for something which depends on nothing in us. The mere trace of an angel resting for an instant upon the dust of our heart.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 128

#560

Happiness is a moment of silence between two of life’s noises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 106

#519

Happiness is that state of sensibility in which everything appears to have a reason for being.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 100