Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. (Aldous Huxley)

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

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