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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. - Quote by George Eliot

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

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