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.
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Simone Weil
These are some quotes by French author Simone Weil Philosopher, who lived between February 3, 1909 and August 24, 1943.
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