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In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

Apocalypse Now

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG [The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation]. Vol. 1, YMCA-Press, 1973.

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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Rope

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out.

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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