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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."
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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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"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."
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"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 need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
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"Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?"
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship
"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
Time
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
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