fuck yeah, literary quotes
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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.
What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
Most times we’re so focused on what we think we want that we can’t appreciate how happy we already are. It’s only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.
Put your good where it will do the most!
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn’t flowers grow out of dirt?
People who claim they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
…please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you.
