Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a per…

Thomas Merton
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Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost ✨ Thomas Merton (1972). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.180, New Directions Publishing
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