You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people – which means that there is no way out. Happy and judged or absolved and miserable. In my case, the injustice was even greater: I was condemned for past happiness. I had long lived under the illusion of universal accord, while in reality criticism, jibes and scorn rained down upon me, and I remained smiling and oblivious. As soon as I became aware of it, lucidity arrived. I received all the wounds at once and lost my strength at a
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