"Our murmuring is the devil's music."
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"The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . ."
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"Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil."
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"The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl."
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"Accursed be he who plays with the devil."
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"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."
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"The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection."
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"You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!"
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"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
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"Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself."
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"However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice."
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"What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?"
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"The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God."
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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
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"The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
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"He must needs go that the devil drives."
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"If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well."
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"God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour."
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."
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"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest."
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