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   There is a fundamental difference between human happiness, which is fleeting, and the cold eternity of the cosmos.

   Luceafărul · 1883

   Human happiness is an ephemeral joy, while cosmic eternity is a cold and indifferent immortality.

   Eminescu, through the voice of the Hyperion, contrasts two worlds: one of humans, limited and lucky, and another of immortality, solitary and indifferent. Human luck comes from ignoring the infinite; cosmic immortality is cold because it knows neither love nor suffering. For example, a person enjoys a moment of love, while a star shines for billions of years feeling nothing.

   “Living within your narrow circle, luck attends your days; but I, within my own world, feel immortal and cold.”

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