“Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?”

—  Jean Paul Sartre, book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 3, sc. 6
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

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