External interests, it is true, bring each its own possibility of pain. ... But pains of these kinds do not destroy the essential quality of life, as do those that spring from disgust with self. And every external interest inspires some activity which, so long as the interest remains alive, is a complete preventive of ennui.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 1, by Bertrand Russell
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