I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have diffic…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.65, Simon and Schuster
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