"It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it."
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"Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!"
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"I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable."
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"The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried."
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"My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward."
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