True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
("The Eyre Affair")
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.
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