What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree, and it is from its nature only possible as an episodic phenomenon. - Sigmund Freud (Civilization And Its Discontents Quotes)

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree, and it is from its nature only possible as an episodic phenomenon.[Was man im strengsten Sinne Glück heißt, entspringt der eher plötzlichen Befriedigung hoch aufgestauter Bedürfnisse und ist seiner Natur nach nur als episodisches Phänomen möglich.]

Source:(W. W. Norton, ed. 1962), Chapter II, Page 23
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