Hace ya como ocho años, leí este párrafo del libro The Consolations of Philosophy de Alain de Botton. Lo vuelvo a leer y les sigo encontrando sentido. Es un comentario sobre un par de citas de Nietzsche que en los peores momentos recuerdo haberlo recordado, al menos tangencialmente:
Anyone seeking to be happy was strongly advised never to drink anything alcoholic at all. Never:
"I cannot advise all more spiritual natures too seriously to abstain from alcohol absolutely. Water suffices".
Why? Because Raphael had not drunk to escape his envy in Urbino in 1504, he had gone to Florence and learned how to be a great painter. Because Stendhal had not drunk in 1805 to escape his despair over L'Homme qui creint d'être gouverné, he had gardened the pain for seventeen years and published De l'amour in 1822:
"If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence then it is clear that [you harbour in your heart]...the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable...people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together"
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