"Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey."

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We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

— Flannery O'Connor