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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
What had she ever earned? The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that—” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
People were good at imagining hells, and some they occupied while they were alive.
