Victor Pelevin. Pineapple water for a beautiful lady (№ 95518)

If all the people together meant a certain amount of happiness and distress, then it will be worse than your soul is, the freer it be someone else's joy, simply for the reason that pain and happiness will only occur relative to each other.
The entire twentieth century we, Russian fools, have been a generator, producing happiness for the Western world. We have produced it from her grief. We were the galley slaves, who, sitting in a crowded hold, moved the world in a Sunny morning, dying in the darkness and stench. To make the other half of the planet pole of happiness, we have turned into a pole suffering