But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a s…

Truman Capote
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. ✨ Truman Capote (1955). Other voices, other rooms, Modern Library
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