August 3, 2010

evil

I think I believe that great evils are only committed by those who believe adamantly and firmly in the inevitability of their own particular, individual reality.

A quote from my favourite short story writer, Jorge Luis Borges:

“Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

- “The Garden of Forking Paths,” from Ficciones

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