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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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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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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
"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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"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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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
Journalism
"All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all."
Silence
"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
"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."
People
"And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau."
Evil
"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
Faith
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
History
"My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'"
Chaos
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
Love
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