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I used to think this was all about good and evil,_ said Rickett, __ut it__ not.___o?___here__ a kind of evil that isn__ even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It__ a foulness that__ right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It__ in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.___nd while we__e alive?___e set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too._ He patted Parker on the shoulder. __specially the destroying ones.
John Connolly A Time of Torment
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I used to think this was all about good and evil,_ said Rickett, __ut it__ not.___o?___here__ a kind of evil that isn__ even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It__ a foulness that__ right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It__ in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.___nd while we__e alive?___e set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too._ He patted Parker on the shoulder. __specially the destroying ones.
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John Connolly

A Time of Torment

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