Once we ate from the tree of knowing good with evil, our world became a place
of compounds and mixtures. You will not find beauty without ugliness, joy
without sorrow, pleasure without pain. You cannot invent a thing that will
provide benefit without threat of harm, or a man on this earth who does only
good without fault.
Wherever you will find one form of good, you will find another sort of evil.
And where that evil does not lie, another will take its place. Rare it is, so
rare, to find pure and simple goodness in a single being.... [Continue]
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