Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it, as if it were a piece of fruit. But I maintain that even for a piece of fruit we can do something to help it taste good. This is even truer of marriage and every other human relationship; these things are not meant to be tasted or passively accepted; they must be made. A relationship is not like a bit of shade where one is comfortable or uncomfortable depending on the weather and the way the wind is blowing. On the contrary, it is a place of miracles, where the magician makes the rain and the good weather.


On Private Life. - Alain On Happiness (1973)

Émile Chartier Quotes

Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it,...

Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it,...

Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it,...

Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it,...