The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Evelyn Waugh Quote
“I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
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