Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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