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“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”
“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”
“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us...”
“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was ...”
“We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful thi...”
“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exis...”
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear....”
“An imagined evil can be worse than the real thing.”
“I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie.”
“The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.”
“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”
“If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.”
“Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain.”
“Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side...”
“Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a...”
“Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.”
“Well, that's an evil smile...”
“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”
“Marriage is a necessary evil”
