Good has faces of terror

There is no such thing as Good:
virtue is simply one of the many faces of terror,
When man understands that,
he will realise that this world is just a little
joke played on him by God.

(Paulo Coelho)

Author's explanation: The voice... began to show him the people all around him on the beach. The wonderful father who was busy packing things up and helping his children put on some warm clothes and who would love to have an affair with his secretary, but was terrified of his wife's response. The children who behaved themselves because they were terrified of being punished. The girl who was reading a book all on her own beneath a sunshade, pretending she didn't care, but inside was terrified of spending the rest of her life alone. The boy running around with a tennis racquet, terrified of having to live up to his parents' expectations. ... (excerpts from his book 'The Devil and Miss Prym')

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