“If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.”

—  Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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