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What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Jacques Maritain
Men, Unhappy, Unhappiness
"The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.