I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out…

Thomas Merton
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I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. ✨ Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings, p.228, New City Press
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I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. ✨ Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings, p.228, New City Press

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