A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods i…

William Faulkner
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. ✨ William Faulkner, Paul Gardner, Eric Mottram (1976). A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner
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