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How many simple pleasures I denied myself, because I thought that’s what goodness was. How stupid that it took me until the end of the world to realize it was something else entirely.

— Katie Coyle Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (2014)

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I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.

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I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity.

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Believer culture seems to shift so quickly, from benign to terrifying and back again.

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“But it was probably nothing.”
“Nothing is nothing anymore, Viv.”

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What Harp doesn’t understand is that I like my parents—current hiccups in sanity not withstanding.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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