I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. (Aldous Huxley)

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

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