without sadness where would we be? there’d be nothing to compare perpetual bliss to & would that not change the very nature of the game? would happy really be happy anymore
alaric whose command of gothic tribes under roman mandate allowed him to see a people who were forced to fight but reap no reward in order to perpetuate a treaty with the empire---
saying to one who does not feel that there is anything beyond this momentary pubic hair of existence that “there has to be something more” & that “there has to be something