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The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they work by a principle more potent than fission. But I can__ look upon them as just life, impartial and eternal and in flux, an unceasing interchange of protein. And I can__ find proofs of the crawl toward perfection that she believed in. Maybe what we call evil is only as she told me that first day we met, what conflicts with our interests; but maybe there are such realities as ignorance, selfishness, jealousy, malice, criminal carelessness, and maybe these things are evil no mater whose interests they serve or conflict with.
Wallace Stegner All the Little Live Things
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The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they work by a principle more potent than fission. But I can__ look upon them as just life, impartial and eternal and in flux, an unceasing interchange of protein. And I can__ find proofs of the crawl toward perfection that she believed in. Maybe what we call evil is only as she told me that first day we met, what conflicts with our interests; but maybe there are such realities as ignorance, selfishness, jealousy, malice, criminal carelessness, and maybe these things are evil no mater whose interests they serve or conflict with.
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Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things

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