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There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook · 1962

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Second place Delusion Compromise

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1962

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Doris Lessing

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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