"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.“


-Flannery O'Connor

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

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