“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”

—  Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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