Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with c…

Graham Greene
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Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse. ✨ GRAHAM GREENE (1966). THE COMEDIANS
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