But the law of life is change; nothing continues in the same way for any length of time; happiness must become unhappiness, and will be succeeded again by the joy it had displaced.
然而,生活的法则就是变化;没有什么能长久维持原样。幸福会变成不幸,而先前被取代的喜悦,又会重新接踵而来。
— James Stephens · Irish Fairy Tales (1920) · The Birth of Bran —