The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. ✨ Flan…

Flannery O'Connor
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.78, Macmillan
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