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Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.

— Georges Bernanos

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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

The sin against hope: the most deadly of all, and perhaps the most accepted, the most cherished.

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