/lit/ - Literature

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You dwell on it because of false narratives. Innocence is an intentionally forgotten virtue. We have a month devoted to pride - a sin. Not a single day devoted to humility. The inversion of nature and the destruction of beauty are forever pushed on us.
>At first sight, of course, vice is more attractive. She is sexier, she promises to be better company than her plain sister virtue. Every novelist, and every reader too, has more fun with the villains than with the good guys. Goodness is staunch and patient, but wickedness is vivid and dynamic; we admire the first, but we thrill to the second.
Who would appreciate love more? You or somebody who has 'loved' a hundred times?