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“A new truth doesn’t win out by convincing its opponents it’s right. They’re too entrenched, even when it’s obvious how wrong they are. The truth just has to outlive them, wait for them to clear out of the way, until what’s left are the people who grow up familiar with it.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.”
― Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary