If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall…

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ✨ Simone Weil (1998). Simone Weil
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ✨ Simone Weil (1998). Simone Weil

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