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Peter J. Carroll Quotes: Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
         

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.


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