HAPPINESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DURATION OF TIME.

1. Does happiness increase with duration of time? No: for the feeling

of happiness exists only in the present. The memory of past happiness

could not add anything to happiness itself. Happiness is not a word,

but a state of soul. But a state of soul is a present (experience),

such as, for instance, the actualization of life.

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