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“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.”

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Book:Lord of the Dead
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Book:Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times - A Conversation with Peter Seewald
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