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> For human nature is such that sorrows and sufferings simultaneously endured do not add up to a whole in our consciousness but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of perspective... when this most immediate cause of unhappiness comes to an end, we are painfully surprised to see that behind it lies another one, and in reality a whole series of other ones...
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Primo Levi on a Good Day and Unhappiness -