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But one must do something about the past. It doesn't just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

"How do you mean, bad?"
"Well, you know. When I was younger, when I read in the papers and in books and things about really nasty people, bad people, I felt so completely good and in inside myself, I felt that these people were just utterly different from me, that I could never becomne bad or behave really badly like them. Did you feel this?"
"I don't know," said Pierce. "I think boys always know about badness."