It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved whe…

Graham Greene
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It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. ✨ Graham Greene (1974). The end of the affair, Vintage
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