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Quote by Doris Lessing
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that th

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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