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Page 166
... desire , that is to say , that something is lacking to me , and that I am not wholly perfect , unless I had within me some idea of a Being more perfect than myself , in comparing myself with which I recognized my deficiencies ? But if ...
... desire , that is to say , that something is lacking to me , and that I am not wholly perfect , unless I had within me some idea of a Being more perfect than myself , in comparing myself with which I recognized my deficiencies ? But if ...
Page 167
... desire were not in some way or other more perfect than you . Thus when you desire bread the bread is not in every sense more perfect than you or than your body ; it is more perfect only than that emptiness which exists in your stomach ...
... desire were not in some way or other more perfect than you . Thus when you desire bread the bread is not in every sense more perfect than you or than your body ; it is more perfect only than that emptiness which exists in your stomach ...
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... desire this in order that others whose writings I might publish may be pre- vented from imagining that I did them an injury by joining my replies to their writings , because ( as someone said to me lately about his own case ) they would ...
... desire this in order that others whose writings I might publish may be pre- vented from imagining that I did them an injury by joining my replies to their writings , because ( as someone said to me lately about his own case ) they would ...
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