Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -

Christopher Marlowe
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  3. Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
  4. Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth.
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