Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html (30 November 2007) <br class="br">2007
“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
— Doris Lessing, book The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)
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