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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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Personal Development
"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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Personal Development
"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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Personal Development
"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
Man
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
Life
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
Family
"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
Curiosity
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
Friendship
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
Money
"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."
Life
"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
Society
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