Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance - Página 140por Mark Twain - 1916 - 150 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Mark Twain - 1922 - 338 páginas
...difficult to irritate Satan, but that accomplished it. "What an ass you are!" he said. "Are you so > f unobservant as not to have found out that sanity '"•' and happiness are an impossible combination? No -v-eane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the... | |
| Mark Twain - 1923 - 352 páginas
...empire." "But the method of it, Satan, the method h Couldn't you have done it without depriving him j of his reason?" It was difficult to irritate Satan,...are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy,.for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy,... | |
| Lewis Leary, Eva MacDonald - 1960 - 49 páginas
...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... | |
| J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 páginas
...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... | |
| Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
| Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 páginas
...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.... | |
| Potsdam Public Museum (Potsdam, N.Y.) - 2004 - 1014 páginas
...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... | |
| Ronald Paulson - 2007 - 423 páginas
...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... | |
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