Stanley Cavell - Pursuits of Happiness (1981)

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This man, in words of Emerson's, carries the holiday in his eye; he is fit to stand the gaze of millions.

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The achievement of happiness requires not the... satisfaction of our needs... but the examination and transformation of those needs.

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Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

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