Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they ca…

Flannery O'Connor
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.244, Macmillan
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