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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

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What is happiness? Is it just the absence of pain and problems? Is happiness a goal that I can reach and what do I have to do in order to get there? Or is happiness just something that one may experience and in the moment when I start thinking about it then it disappeared already?
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