The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

— Rubén Darío Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

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