Is that what you think? Or is that but a platitude? One does not generally control the duration of one's own life. Even a thousand years may seem like an instant once one has lived it and finds it all gone away.

[He shrugs.] I did not say there could be no moments of joy, but in the end, all are stripped of what they have and what they are. I'm not concerned with the opinions of those too blind to see the world they live in. Their simplicity fails to interest me.

Do you believe your life is happy?