“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God… or the Devil.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
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Billy Budd (1962)
“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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