A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery i…

Flannery O'Connor
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A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.81, Macmillan
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