J. M. Coetzee quote: Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept ...

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been ...

~ J. M. Coetzee ~

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