Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of th…

Flannery O'Connor
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.167, Macmillan
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.167, Macmillan

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