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Doris Lessing

“We are being punished, that’s all.” “What for?” he demanded, already on guard because there was a tone in her voice he hated. “For presuming. For thinking we could be happy. Happy because we decided we would be.”

Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
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The Fifth Child The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
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