"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.“


-Erich Fromm

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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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