Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Ernest Hemingway

• Evil
• Fighting
• Feels
• Pleasure
• Tides

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• Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Evil
  • Fighting
  • Feels