Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.