Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself."
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Jana Oliver
Author
"'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan."
Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist
"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The love of power is the demon of mankind."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too."
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"You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger."
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"[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you."
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"Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons."
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"Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons."
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"The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most."
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"Love, having become a god, becomes a demon."
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"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand."
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"I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in."
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"The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear."
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"Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)"
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"Death is only a byproduct of terrorism."
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"We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie"
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"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"Schizophrenia demons live in my head."
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"I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods."
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"I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both."
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"We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry."
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"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon."
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"If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels."
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