"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

Death, Despair, Will, Wrong

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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

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