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Simone Weil on Affliction

Posted on June 28, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

Simone Weil on Affliction

It is sometimes easy to deliver an unhappy man from his present distress, but it is difficult to set him free from his past affliction . . .

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: Affliction, scars, suffering

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