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“There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”
― Kingman Brewster Jr.

“And who in his mind has not probed the black water? Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.”
― John Morley

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
― Oscar Wilde