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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

Their mind shrank away from such thinking and they looked for a victim - someone to hurt because they were hurt.

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all”