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"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
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"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 evil thing is inside, not out."
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
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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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"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
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"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."
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"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."
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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Life
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
Science
"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
Opportunity
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
People
"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff."
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"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Life
"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
Fact
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
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