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> [ “\[The Devil\] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind, that's where the business should start! One should begin with that, with that--oh, blind men, of no understanding!… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-devil-in-my-opinion-there-is-no-need-to-destroy-anything-one/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [“No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Texan. It is because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/no-but-why-is-croft-that-way-oh-there-are-the-answers-he-is-that-way/)

[Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/)

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