Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragi…

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? ✨ Saint Augustine (1997). The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? ✨ Saint Augustine (1997). The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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