“Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the formContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Fleeting State of Happiness (Anton Chekov)”
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RKS Literature: Happiness as Mass Hypnosis? (Anton Chekov)
“But we don’t hear or see those who suffer: the real tragedies of life are enacted somewhere behind the scenes. Everything is calm and peaceful and the only protest comes from statistics-and they can’t talk. Figures show that so many went mad, so many bottles of vodka were emptied, so many children died of malnutrition.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Happiness as Mass Hypnosis? (Anton Chekov)”
