Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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• Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
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  • Bliss
  • Denominator