He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.

Anthony Marra
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  2. There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. - J.k. Rowling

  3. 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. - Oscar Wilde

  4. 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. - Joyce Carol Oates

  5. It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile? - Pamela Dean

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  4. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

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