Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? …

Tom Stoppard
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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, p.106, Faber & Faber
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