““Happiness” had an element of inanity, verified by Greene in life and in his fiction: “Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.”
(Flaubert, in a letter of 1846, also felt that “to be stupid, selfish, and have a good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” Acknowledging the possibility of a higher form of happiness, achieved incidentally in the exercise of deeper capacities, Flaubert felt that, in his own case, that, too, would remain phantasmal)” (Hazzard, 2001: 12).
HAZZARD, Shirley (2001). Greene In Capri. London: Virago Press.
(Flaubert, in a letter of 1846, also felt that “to be stupid, selfish, and have a good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” Acknowledging the possibility of a higher form of happiness, achieved incidentally in the exercise of deeper capacities, Flaubert felt that, in his own case, that, too, would remain phantasmal)” (Hazzard, 2001: 12).
HAZZARD, Shirley (2001). Greene In Capri. London: Virago Press.
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário