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Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is.
—Robert Musil
Friday, January 22, 2021

The misfortune (Zhicheng)

But how could I have foreseen
The misfortune of possessing a mind of clarity?

Luo Zhicheng, from "On Encountering Sorrow"

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