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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Montana
United States
Purity
Question
Evil
Doe
Every
Believe
Good
Intend
Possessed

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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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