A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
Hyoi, p. 73 <!-- 1965 edition -->
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Kontext: A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The séroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then–that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.
„Mysli na minulosť len vtedy, ak ti spomienka na ňu prinesie radosť.“
„Ktokoľvek zatúži po radosti, musí sa o ňu deliť, lebo šťastie sa zrodilo ako dvojča.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Ak chcete naplno zažiť radosť, musíte mať niekoho, s kým sa o ňu môžete podeliť.“
„Za šťastného sa pokladaj vtedy, keď každá tvoja radosť sa rodí z teba samého.“
„Najlepšie je vykonávať radosť. Prečo radosť? Lebo radosťou nič
nepokazíme. - malá klariska“
( klariskina bujna fantázia)
„Človek je pre radosť a radosť je pre človeka.“
