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People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. an unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
-Erin Morgenstern
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People Are Naive About Such Things, And

Erin Morgenstern
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. an unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. the ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate evil are not your own but those of evil.... evil is whatever distracts. evil knows of the good, but good does not know of evil. knowledge of oneself is something only evil has. one means that evil has is the dialogue.... one cannot pay evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
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The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. it's a very good attempt. and there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. the greeks began to, the romans began to - they both failed.
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