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" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "
W. H. Auden
Evil
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" A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. "
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" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "
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