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Rebecca West Quotes: I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
         

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.


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