![Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.](/assets/img/quote-photos/is-enjoyment-the-goal-of-life-were-it-so-it-would-be-a-tremendous-mistake-to-be.jpg)
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