Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. (Nikos Kazantzakis)

Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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