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Despair Quote by Joyce Cary

“I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.” quote by Joyce Cary — Download Open image

“I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.”

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