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Oneself Quotes by Doris Lessing
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing…
- There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
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