Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season …

Graham Greene
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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. ✨ Graham Greene (1980). Travels with my aunt
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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. ✨ Graham Greene (1980). Travels with my aunt

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