Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

ruminations on joy

Pleasure is abundant, but joy is hard to pin down.

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Sindhu Shivaprasad
Jun 10, 2023
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In the inn of our emotions, pleasure is a transient guest: leaving as quickly as it arrives, taking nothing with it, and leaving almost no trace behind. Zadie Smith writes, in an essay titled Joy:

…the end of a pleasure brings no great harm to anyone, after all, and can always be replaced with another of more or less equal worth.

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