“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Duchess of Padua
In response to Diệm and Nhu, assassination in a coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh (Armed Forces Council) http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2013/10/05/
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Duchess of Padua
Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge (1803–1874) Dutch minister
Source: Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855), p. 7
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview with "El País", 2009.
“The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ
Source: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
2013-10-06
In Conversation: Antonin Scalia
Jennifer Senior
New York
http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/index3.html
2010s
Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)