Evil and the Mask Quotes

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Evil and the Mask Quotes
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“Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'
'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
― Evil and the Mask
'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
― Evil and the Mask
“Happiness is a fortress.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“For example, even if this was some kind of fairy tale with a happy ending, real people's lives keep on going after the story finishes. As a story it ends happily, even if the characters die of something immediately afterwards. In the same way, I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“Every year far more people kill themselves in Japan than die through war or terrorism in Iraq. We go on and on about other countries, but I think Japanese society is pretty cruel too.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“Happiness is a fortress. Because happiness is an enclosed space only a lucky few can enjoy, the lucky few who can turn a blind eye to people like you, people with pain and sorrow, who can turn a blind eye to poverty and hunger.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“The seeds of evil, the mud that never dries, will squirm and grow at every corner of the globe, through humansâ€� unconscious mind and karmic echoes.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture â€� these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“maybe the real purpose of war is simply to replicate itself, to create more wars.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“In this world, you must be powerful, because when an able person becomes a cancer, he is formidable, I hear you are highly intelligent. That, however, is thanks to your education thus far. The differences between people are not as great as the differences between the humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people. At present, you have the habit of diligence - in other words, perseverance and willpower. From now on you must also form the habit of resisting the temptation towards inertia or resignation. To purge from your soul any tendency to give up.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“You must resent all happiness. people who have killed cannot attain one hundred percent virtue, but they can attain one hundred percent evil. That is your life path. You have power and money. Destroy everything.By sublimating yourself to the first of hell, to the mighty, evil energy that destroys all people and all joy, you can obtain a piece of an incredible pleasure. Pathetic individuals like serial killers or terrorist bombers will never obtain it. It's an even greater evil. Even greater.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“The differences between people are not as great as the differences between humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“NOW I’M GOING to tell you some important facts about your life.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“The sunlight streaming in through the windows sparkled in her eyes, and the reflection seemed to shine on me as well. I told myself I had to remember those thin, strong beams forever.”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“If happiness is a fortress, then it doesn’t matter what you do.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“It can all go to hell. In my dystopia, it can all just disappear!”
― Evil and the Mask
― Evil and the Mask
“It’s a fever, get it? That fever, that’s what I want. That fever, that flood, heading for doom.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“War is the best business model there is.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“part of us that will survive. Contempt. Contempt for the world, for love, for everything of value, and then contempt for contempt itself.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“It’s not me they’re afraid of. It’s the hell inside me.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“the conscious is the slave of the subconscious.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“If you see a person’s room you can pretty much understand them.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“it’s like she’s afraid of living.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“Everyone plays the lead role in their own life.”
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― Evil and the Mask
“Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.”
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― Evil and the Mask