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    John Milton
    “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan
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    Mike Carey
    “Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

    Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.”
    ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong
    tags: devil, god, lucifer, yahweh
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
    'Pride is all I have.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: devil, evil, god, heaven, lucifer, pride, sin
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “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.)”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
    tags: damnation, faustus, hell, lucifer, mephistopheles
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    Sarah MacLean
    “What does Éloa mean?”

    He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”

    Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”

    “You wouldn’t have.”

    “Was he a fallen angel?”

    “She was, yes.” He hesitated, not wanting to tell her the story, but unable to stop himself. “Lucifer tricked her into falling from heaven.”

    “Tricked her how?”

    He met her gaze. “She fell in love with him.”

    Penelope’s eyes widened. “Did he love her?”

    Like an addict loves his addiction. “The only way he knew how.”

    She shook her head. “How could he trick her?”

    “He never told her his name.”
    ― Sarah MacLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name
    tags: allegory, angels, eloa, love, lucifer, seduction
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    Mike Carey
    “Michael: There's nothing here to fear.
    Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.”
    ― Mike Carey
    tags: fear, lucifer, truth
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    William Shakespeare
    “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
    Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
    Yet Grace must still look so.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: brightness, foul, grace
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    Mike Carey
    “No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.”
    ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters
    tags: hell, lucifer
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    Thomas Harris
    “Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Silence can mock.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Hello Clarice...”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: horror
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    Thomas Harris
    “Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: hannibal, horror, mental-illness, psychiatry, psychology, schizophrenia, science, the-silence-of-the-lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: diplomacy, empowerment, life, relationships, subtlety
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Mario Puzo
    “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series
    tags: diplomacy, love, outrage
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    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
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    Doug Wright
    “Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
    ― Doug Wright, Quills
    tags: communication, conversation, diplomacy
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    Isaac Newton
    “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: diplomacy
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, preparedness, strategy
    261 likes

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    Elizabeth I
    “I observe and remain silent.”
    ― Queen Elizabeth I
    tags: diplomacy, wisdom
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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