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“Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it--an abstract and geometric love.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt,
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?”
― The Seven Against Thebes
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?”
― The Seven Against Thebes
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
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