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Pratesh Mathew is a writer from Kerala, India, who has been writing short lines in notebooks since he was a teenager. By day he works in tech startups. By night he writes about freedom, solitude, and the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide.

Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty is his first book. It's 100 lines on unlearning the script we're handed as children and becoming the author of our own lives.

Diabolos Bible was named a Recommended Read on Reedsy Discovery: "A sharply written collection of aphorisms that challenges its reader to cast off convention in favor of personal autonomy."


He posts a new aphorism every day on YouTube at @OfficialDailyAphorisms.
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Lucifer was not the villain. He was the first person who refused.

Pratesh MathewEvery tradition that touched this story did the same thing. They took a being who said no and called it evil. They took an act of refusal and dressed it up as corruption. They made it so that the lesson you walked away with was simple: obedience is virtue, and questioning is sin.

But sit with the actual story for a moment. Not the doctrine. The story.

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“Lie to please, and everyone stays. Tell the truth once, and you'll find out who actually loves you.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“God is open source. Everyone contributes, and no one agrees on the final build.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“I'll let God have his throne, but I'm not going to be his audience.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“I grew so tall that I forgot I had roots.”
― Pratesh John Mathew, DIABOLOS BIBLE: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“Life is a joke when you are the audience, and a tragedy when you are the joke.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“Actions can wear a disguise, but intention always goes naked. The tragedy is that we spend our lives pretending we can't see it.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“Lie to please, and everyone stays. Tell the truth once, and you'll find out who actually loves you.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

“We were given words to say what we feel, and taught to use them to hide it instead.”
― Pratesh Mathew, Diabolos Bible: Aphorisms on Individual Sovereignty

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