It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. (Nadine Gordimer)

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Nadine Gordimer

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