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“She had no faith in humanity. The look in someone's eyes, the beliefs they espoused, the eloquence with which they did so, were, she knew, no guarantee of anything She knew that the only life left to her was one hemmed in by niggling doubts and cold questions.”

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Book:Human Acts

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