Quotes by Doris Lessing
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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Pearls mean tears.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
