I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope – an impotence, in short and to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all... (John Fowles)

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope – an impotence, in short and to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all...

John Fowles

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