Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merel…

Flannery O'Connor
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.178, Macmillan
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.178, Macmillan

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