I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by fri…

Saint Augustine
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them. ✨ Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). The Confessions, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks
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