“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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Cited in: Caroline Sweetman (2005) Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction. p. 94
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