Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. I…

Graham Greene
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. ✨ Graham Greene (1973). The Portable Graham Greene
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