The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is th…

Thomas Merton
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The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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