Wikiquote cites On Pilgrimage (1948), page 126, for this sentence. The attribution has a specific book locator, but this review did not independently inspect that edition’s page. Source and attribution evidence ↗
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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough
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Wikiquote cites On Pilgrimage (1948), page 126, for this sentence. The attribution has a specific book locator, but this review did not independently inspect that edition’s page. Source and attribution evidence ↗
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Dorothy Day wrote On Pilgrimage. In the passage cited by Wikiquote, her reflection on love leads into an account of her changing relationship with radical political movements.
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