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We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
—Don Draper, Mad Men Season 4, Episode 8 The Summer Man
The origin of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It is the craving that produces renewal of being accompanied by enjoyment and lust, and enjoying this and that; in other words, craving for sensual desires, craving for being, craving for non-being.