Flannery OConnorChildren know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. If you do not have love in your life then you will never truly be happy. It is not that you are incapable of feeling love, but that you do not feel it in your heart. If you do not have love in your heart then it is impossible to be content with your life.
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