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“Something else," he told Atkins. He stood with his nose an inch away from the sergeant's, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his coat. "What does Lucifer mean?" "Light Bearer." "And what is the stuff of the universe?" "Energy." "What is energy's commonest form?" "Light." "I know." And with that, the detective walked away, listing slowly through the squad room and down the stairs. He didn't come back.”

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Book:Legion
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“— Como ha dicho usted... en lo que a Dios concierne presumo de no creyente, y, aunque no estoy muy segura, creo que lo sigo siendo. Pero en lo que respecta al diablo... bueno, eso es algo distinto. Lo podría aceptar, y en realidad lo acepto. Pero no sólo por lo que le ha pasado a Rags. Hablando en general, quiero decir. —Se encogió de hombros—. Si a uno se le ocurre pensar en Dios, tiene que imaginarse que existe uno; y si existe, debe necesitar dormir millones de años cada vez para no irritarse. ¿Se da cuenta de lo que quiero decir? El nunca habla. Pero el diablo no hace más que hacerse propaganda, padre.”

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Book:The Exorcist
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“Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.”

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Book:If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty’s Own Story of the Exorcist
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“Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.”

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“From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.”

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“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.”

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