Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. ✨ Simon…

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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