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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!
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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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