"Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat."

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We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

— George Orwell