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Criss Jami Quotes: It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
         

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.


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It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
         



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This page presents the quote "It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.". Author of this quote is Criss Jami. This quote is about pursuit-of-happiness, society, obsession, depression, concern, prosperity, modernity, unhappy, absence,.