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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

If there is evil, it is deliberate cruelty. If there is true stupidity, it is lying to yourself about what we take with us into death.

1 comment:

shaun said...

One of my favorite poets, Antonio Porchia once said that the only real good is to forgive evil--that there is no other good.

"Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good."
-Antonio Porchia

Selections from VOCES (1943), Translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin