“I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre, book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 11, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

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