Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Gustave Flaubert
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day...
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day...
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day...
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day...
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The British playwright and novelist George Bernard Shaw said, “Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom.” He meant that happiness is not an object, but a state of mind. It’s about how we feel, not what we have.

Source: November

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