"If I ever went out with you, you would suck the life blood out of me. To the point where you'd make me commit an act of self-abusing nihilism just to feel like you haven't taken control over me.
Without a doubt, then you would spit out my carcass onto the street, and make me feel like it was all my fault in the first instance."
It is suggested that there are four conditions for happiness: 1) life in the open air; 2) the love of another being; 3) freedom from all ambition; 4) creation.
"You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters -- all that matter is -- is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever-present consciousness. The rest women, art, success -- is nothing but excuses…."
For those who's economic situation dictates the allowance of time, when life's basic necessities demand most of your time and energy, the possibilities for a self-chosen life is much more restricted.
Time is the foundation for all, and thus the most precious thing.