Sigmund Freud :
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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Pleasure
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Happiness
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Goals
Gift it
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