lucifer

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db30731	Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.	inspirational lucifer rebellion revolt satan	John Milton
008afed	Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.	hell lucifer	Neil Gaiman
b17ffc0	Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)	faustus hell lucifer mephistopheles	Christopher Marlowe
dfc6496	Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?	god lucifer rebel-angels	Libba Bray
481d617	He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.	lucifer male	Lisa Kleypas
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
9298a44	They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.	hell lucifer	Neil Gaiman
a8dda88	They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?	lucifer	Neil Gaiman
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
1343003	"I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike."	humanity lucifer	Richard Kadrey
9861c7b	Besides, do you think you would have come if I'd just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, 'Hello, I'm the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?	lucifer	Richard Kadrey
bb1a1a1	For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.	hitler lucifer miguel-serrano morning-star tarka tarka-the-otter venus	Henry Williamson
e2bf679	None of the palaces in Hell come close to Lucifer's in size or beauty. Lucifer lives at the top of a literal ivory tower, miles high. You can't even see the top from the ground. The joke is that he built it that high so he can lean out the window and pound on Heaven's floor with a broom handle when he wants them to turn down the choir.	heaven-and-hell lucifer	Richard Kadrey
e6077ff	"I did," Henric said, with a triumphant look. "Oh," Meena said, opening the book to the page 74, the one from her dream. "You mean this prince?" She pointed at the illustration of Lucifer. Henric's grin faltered slightly. "Precisely." "He's not a prince," Meena said. "As you know perfectly well, he's a fallen angel. And what was Lucien's mother?" "A p-princess," Henric stammered. But there was terror in his eyes. "No," Lucien said, shaking his head. "She was an angel." Meena swung around to look at him. Tears glittered in her eyes as she gazed up into his, which had gone back to their normal deep brown. "Yes, Lucien," she said, holding the book open in front of him. "That's why Henric was trying to keep this from you. Because he realized it was the one thing that might help you remember what your mother always taught you. You, of all people, really do have a choice. You can choose to be good . . . because you are part good. No matter how hard you try to be the devil's son, you've still got an angel for a mother."	demons good lucien-antonescu lucifer meena	Meg Cabot
4a0f448	And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.	lucifer passion sin valentine	Lawrence Durrell

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

inspirational lucifer rebellion revolt satan

John Milton

008afed

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

hell lucifer

Neil Gaiman

b17ffc0

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)

faustus hell lucifer mephistopheles

Christopher Marlowe

dfc6496

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

god lucifer rebel-angels

Libba Bray

481d617

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

lucifer male

Lisa Kleypas

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

9298a44

They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.

hell lucifer

Neil Gaiman

a8dda88

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

lucifer

Neil Gaiman

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

1343003

"I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike."

humanity lucifer

Richard Kadrey

9861c7b

Besides, do you think you would have come if I'd just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, 'Hello, I'm the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?

lucifer

Richard Kadrey

bb1a1a1

For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.

hitler lucifer miguel-serrano morning-star tarka tarka-the-otter venus

Henry Williamson

e2bf679

None of the palaces in Hell come close to Lucifer's in size or beauty. Lucifer lives at the top of a literal ivory tower, miles high. You can't even see the top from the ground. The joke is that he built it that high so he can lean out the window and pound on Heaven's floor with a broom handle when he wants them to turn down the choir.

heaven-and-hell lucifer

Richard Kadrey

e6077ff

"I did," Henric said, with a triumphant look. "Oh," Meena said, opening the book to the page 74, the one from her dream. "You mean this prince?" She pointed at the illustration of Lucifer. Henric's grin faltered slightly. "Precisely." "He's not a prince," Meena said. "As you know perfectly well, he's a fallen angel. And what was Lucien's mother?" "A p-princess," Henric stammered. But there was terror in his eyes. "No," Lucien said, shaking his head. "She was an angel." Meena swung around to look at him. Tears glittered in her eyes as she gazed up into his, which had gone back to their normal deep brown. "Yes, Lucien," she said, holding the book open in front of him. "That's why Henric was trying to keep this from you. Because he realized it was the one thing that might help you remember what your mother always taught you. You, of all people, really do have a choice. You can choose to be good . . . because you are part good. No matter how hard you try to be the devil's son, you've still got an angel for a mother."

demons good lucien-antonescu lucifer meena

Meg Cabot

4a0f448

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

lucifer passion sin valentine

Lawrence Durrell