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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
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- Flannery O'Connor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
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