John ConnollyAfter all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.
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To most people, evil is an abstraction. It exists only in terms of what it does, not in terms of who it is. But to the truly good, evil is a kind of poison, an infection of the soul. We may choose to ignore evil, but it’s always there, affecting us by its very existence.
Source: The Whisperers
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