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In a time where we hear so much about the devil and how to fight against him, T.S. Eliot was a man who saw the devil as a person who hid in plain sight, not one who walked among us. He was frightened of humankind's fear of the devil rather than the devil himself. In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," he wrote: "I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified by the devil than I am of the devil himself." This is something he believed from personal experience.
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