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Penguin Parade: 1

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“If one day I become financially secure, so that I can freely write and publish, I know I'll miss this precarious life in which I hardly write and don't publish at all. I'll miss it not only because it will be a life, however mediocre, that I'll never have again, but also because every sort of life has a special quality and particular pleasure, and when we take up another life, even a better one, that particular pleasure isn't as good, that special quality is less special, until they fade away, and there's something missing.”

“‫السائدُ بوجهٍ عام أنّ مفهومَ مذهب اللّذة يعني نزوعًا لا أخلاقيًّا نحو حياة المتعة، إنْ لم نقُل الرذيلة. هذا، طبعًا، مجانبٌ للصواب. فأبيقور - أكبرُ منظّري اللّذة - فهِمَ الحياةَ السعيدةَ بارتيابٍ تامٍّ، إذ رأى أنّ مَن يشعُرُ باللّذة هو مَن لا يتألّم. الألم - إذًا - هو الفكرةُ الأساس لمبدأ اللّذة‬”