Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Unknown
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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J.k. Rowling
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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Oscar Wilde
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
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Joyce Carol Oates
It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?
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Pamela Dean
More Quotes By P.D. James
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
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