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8. “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
Suffering, Contentment, Human Desire, Adaptation, Psychological Insight, Happiness
9. “We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.” Simone Weil Existence, Possibility, Philosophical Paradox, Human Desire, Metaphysics, Spiritual Insight
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8. “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 Suffering, Contentment, Human Desire, Adaptation, Psychological Insight, Happiness
9. “We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.”
Simone Weil Existence, Possibility, Philosophical Paradox, Human Desire, Metaphysics, Spiritual Insight
