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b4cc8a2 Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. con devil lie sexy wit Holly Black
7b00376 "La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( )" devil existence reality ruse ruses sleight-of-hand tricks Charles Baudelaire
ba4425c I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up! aspirations devil goodness inspirational life live morning motivational purpose Steve Maraboli
b7acc23 This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up! caring dancing devil forgiving healing helping hugging inspirational laughing learning life loving loving-choices motivational sharing smiling wondering Steve Maraboli
820dd37 If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end. devil fates god pain James Frey
1f1d9b7 People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. devil god good religion Anne Rice
7e1cb20 "The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; devil horror Charles Baudelaire
05e2e68 "When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of "Devil's Advocate," in order to fast-track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil ." beatification canonisation deacons devil devil-s-advocate fanatacism monsignors mother-teresa pope pope-john-paul-ii priests pro-bono religion sainthood satan testimony vatican Christopher Hitchens
27c0c7b "Not entirely fair?" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..." Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history? "I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-" "Have you tried saying sorry?" interrupted Cabal. "No, I haven't! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say 'sorry'!" devil humor johannes necromancer Jonathan L. Howard
ba3f9cb The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? devil evil mankind truth Arthur Conan Doyle
b2e7e86 Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil. bright devil night Cornelia Funke
2893695 "You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman." devil englishmen englishwomen lucifer match Charles Dickens
0bb49cf The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away). They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new, And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do; He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate, Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait; He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky, And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf; But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself. O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away, And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stay At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever; The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever; There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain, There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain; There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door, Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more, Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark, And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark: And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird; For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word. devil misery G.K. Chesterton
e6bbb58 Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. devil preachers woman Orhan Pamuk
237f9e1 In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible. bible defending devil reading R.C. Sproul Jr.
bc69f91 God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell. christian christopher-marlowe creator demons devil eternity faust god hard-truths hell lucifer marlowe truth E.A. Bucchianeri
5534944 The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. devil man Gregory Maguire
9301ab5 Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same. devil devils fight fighting-evil van-helsing Bram Stoker
6095283 I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. devil faith god Jodi Picoult
f5fce47 "The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)" corruption devil religion Iain Pears
92c0a0b The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. devil evil Charles Baudelaire
d214904 That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. devil dr-jekyll dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde hate hatred hell horor Robert Louis Stevenson
4693a6b The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell? destiny devil fate responsibility self-deception Umberto Eco
74099ae Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And when she turned shrieking, to see what manner of thing lay beside her in the bed, she was at first reassured by sight of her husband's face, then saw, to her horror, that horns had risen, black and pointed, from his forehead. After that she screamed again and remembered nothing until Joseph was shaking her awake, and there were neither horns nor tail to be seen. Nor were the bedclothes scorched. devil satan witchcraft Evangeline Walton
e6c330d The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. devil god hell liberty milton poetry William Blake
1f993c8 "It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the forces of light and darkness against each other in a permanent stand-off, with humanity as the battlefield. (When asked if Jesus is part of this battle, he responds rather loftily that he thinks it is a distinct possibility.) But it is at points like this that he talks as if all the late-night undergraduate talk sessions on the question of theism had become rolled into one. 'How can we not face up to the fact that if God is All-Powerful, He cannot be All-Good. Or She cannot be All-Good.' Mailer says that questions such as this have bedevilled 'theologians', whereas it would be more accurate to say that such questions, posed by philosophers, have attempted to put theologians out of business. A long exchange on the probability of reincarnation (known to Mailer sometimes as "karmic reassignment") manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: 'In different times, the heavens may have been partial to monarchy, to communism, and certainly the Lord was interested in democracy, in capitalism. (As was the Devil!)' I think it was at this point that I decided I would rather remember Mailer as the author of capitalism communism democracy devil god good-and-evil jesus monarchy norman-mailer omnibenevolence omnipotence philosophy politics reincarnation religion theism theology Christopher Hitchens
355b128 You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse. devil industry manufacturers trade Elizabeth Gaskell
04b71c6 "Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk. "Very. He is still, I think." beelzebub cunning devil evil hideous-beauty wicked Nancy E. Turner
fb188f6 An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials. destiny devil take-control-of-your-fate Matthew Pearl
e5e95ef Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be. devil evil faith god joy love Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8eb2799 ...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That there is a true Science in the World called Scientia Umbrarum which, as to the publick teaching of it, has been suppressed but which the proper Artificer must comprehend, 3) That Architecture aims at Eternity and must contain the Eternal Powers: not only our Altars and Sacrifices, but the Forms of our Temples, must be mysticall, 4) That the miseries (If the present Life, and the Barbarities of Mankind, the fatall disadvantages we are all under and the Hazard we run of being eternally Undone, lead the True Architect not to Harmony or to Rationall Beauty but to quite another Game. Why, do we not believe the very Infants to be the Heirs of Hell and Children of the Devil as soon as they are disclos'd to the World? I declare that I build my Churches firmly on this Dunghil Earth and with a full Conception of Degenerated Nature. I have only room to add: there is a mad-drunken Catch, Hey ho! The Devil is dead! If that be true, I have been in the wrong Suit all my Life. devil occult satan Peter Ackroyd
daf8308 The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. devil faith truth Umberto Eco
5bfc9dd "But della Rovere frowned and said, "Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church." church devil evil god mario-puzo priest the-family Mario Puzo
961333c I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine devil dostoyevsky ivan karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
c447bce Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains. chaos devil god order skeeter John Updike
5550d27 , probably derived from the old French : a troop of the devil's horsemen. archery devil harlequin hellequin Bernard Cornwell
36261b7 I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil. devil enemy first-impression iris-murdoch the-green-knight underestimated Iris Murdoch
7698184 All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. devil evil sin Dan Simmons
21ade40 Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down? devil down heaven hell up Eoin Colfer
7b19ab3 Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo. devil hope people Carlos Ruiz Zafón
d1639bf A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil devil woman women Peter Ackroyd
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