How cruel and merciless, but also pleasant and amazing, life is. He made you understand that death can sometimes be more peaceful than someone in a vegetative state and in pain. Twain, Mark. “The Mysterious Stranger”. Mysterious quotes from abroad. Goodreads, 2015. The web. September 1, 2015. “Are you so unobservant as not to have discovered that mental health and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, because to him life is real and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only fools can be happy, and there are few of them. The few who imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the others are no happier than sane people. Of course, no man is at any time entirely sane, but I have referred to extreme cases. I have removed from this man this deception which the race considers to be a spirit; I replaced his tin life with silver-gilt fiction; you see the result - and you