Today, surrounded
by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, asreligion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everythingends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.
①But what we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is thathappiness is more than pleasure without pain.
②The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential forloss and disappointment.
③Today, surrounded
by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us,as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everythingends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.
④It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, abreath of fresh air.
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①但是我们所忘记的——我们的经济依赖我们忘却的——是：快乐绝不仅仅是没有痛苦的快乐。
②带来最 大快乐的东西也最有可能带有损失和失望。
③如今，我们的周围充斥着唾手可得的幸福的承诺，我们需要艺术来告诉我们，正如宗教曾经告诉过我们的：记得你终将死亡，一切都会结束，幸福的到来不是因为否认这一点，而是对其加以忍受。
④这一启示甚至比叶子烟还要苦，但却不知何故带来了一缕清新的空气。
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