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Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, ...more

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There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than ...more