Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
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Harley King
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.
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Mark Lawrence
Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
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Jennifer Donnelly
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
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Graham Greene
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
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Jules Barbey DAurevilly
More Quotes By Derek Walcott
Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put down, in paint, in words, As palmists learn the network of a hand, All of its sunken, leaf-choked ravines, Every neglected, self-pitying inlet...
As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here– we’re not put on earth– to shape it anyway we want.. You want something to happen with poetry, but it doesn’t...
