...impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, - '' ~*^"*' ' ----- ~-±—, -- " -- a-^ "• ' • for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. NOnly the mad can be happy, and not many of those./ The \ few that imagine themselves kings or gods...

...which exist only when he imagines them. What an ass he is! How hysterically mad are his expectations: "No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is," for "there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly lif e, no heaven, no hell. It is all a...

...Finally, Father Peter is exonerated, with the help of Satan (10), and achieves happiness by going mad: "No sane man can be happy, for to him life is reaL . . ." Of course, Satan here is "referring to the extreme cases," "Chronicle" (11) "peters out" with...

...lead to unhappiness. The true function of consciousness, then, is a tragic one. ln the words of Twain: "No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real and he sees what a fearful thing it is."13 To emphasize the element of tragedy (almost Nietzschean in its antithesis between consciousness...

...Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, p. 943, Library of America (1992). Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that...sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? "The Mysterious Stranger," The Portable Mark Twain, ch. 10, p. 735. Viking, 1946. Written 1897-1908....

...Finally, Father Peter is exonerated, with the help ol Satan (10), and achieves happiness by going mad: "No sane man can be happy, for to him life is reaL . . ." Of course, Satan here is "referring to the extreme cases." "Chronicle" (1 1) "peters out" with...

...you have done it without depriving him of his reason?" "Are you so unobservant," replies Traum-Satan, "as not to have found out that sanity and happiness...Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those." Turning on Theodor, he concludes, in the voice of Erasmus's Folly and Swift's Hack: "I have made him...