"That secret is that you can't afford everything. An age in which everything goes has always made those who lived in it unhappy. Honesty, continence, chivalry, music, morality, poetry, form, prohibition, all this has no deeper purpose than to give life a limited and precise form. Happiness without limits does not exist. There is no great happiness without great prohibitions. Even in business you cannot chase any profit, otherwise you will achieve nothing. The border constitutes the mystery of the phenomenon, the secret of strength, luck, faith and the problem of supporting oneself, a microscopic man, in the boundless universe. (Robert Musil)"
Prohibition

January 1, 1970

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