“Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Evolution does not lead to Utopia. It leads to a land in which what is best for a man may be worst for another man, or what is best for a woman may be worst for a man.”
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 6
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Source: Body Double
