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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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
"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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Personal Development
"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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"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."
Age
"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."
Civilization
"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in."
Experience
"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."
History
"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."
Heart
"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."
Love
"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
Life
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."
Poetry
"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."
Heart
"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"
Literature
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