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“Liberate yourself from ideas of heroes and villains, good an evil, right and wrong. Here we are all villains. Here there is no judge or jury to decide whether good prevails or perishes; whether evil dies or thrives. There is only balance —in all its infinite permutations.”

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Book:A Feather So Black
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