"Henry Miller, in Sexus, put it so much better (yes, it seems someone almost always already has):Wow. What a great quote from Henry Miller!
Tears are easier to put up with than joy. Joy is destructive: it makes others uncomfortable. 'Weep and you will weep alone.'What a lie that is! Weep and you will find a million crocodiles to weep with you. The world is forever weeping. The world is drenched in tears... But joy, joy is a kind of ecstatic bleeding, a disgraceful sort of supercontentment which overflows from every pore of your being.
You cannot make people joyous just by being joyous yourself.
Joy has to be generated by oneself. It is or it isn't. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood or communicated.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
And ANOTHER excellent essay from AnnaZ!!!Thanks for the flag, Mercuria!
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