… gratification points ultimate one, happiness connection eternal be — Josef Pieper, Happiness Contemplation

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… each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation

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