In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which... can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
- Hannah Arendt, quote in W. H. Auden, A Certain World
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