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In adultery, there is usually tendern...
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Erwin van Moll
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in
Vice and Virtue
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