“One cannot both be a good person and at the same time feel totally blameless and pure inside. Goodness is, one might say, the unique consequence of a keen awareness of one’s capacity to be bad: that is, to be thoughtless, cruel and self-righteous. The price of being genuinely good has to be a constant suspicion that one might be a monster–combined with a fundamental hesitation about labelling anyone else monstrous.”
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Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
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