Thursday, February 18, 2010

Devil

Charles Baudelaire
"Le Joueur généreux," pub. February 7, 1864

-Most people think this quote was made for "The Usual Suspects", but it actually came to be almost 200 years ago..

"Usual Suspects Quote"; The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

...the actual story and quote...

He did not complain in any way about the bad reputation he enjoyed all over the world, assured me that he himself was the person the most interested in the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that he had only been afraid for his own power one time, and that was the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit:

"My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!"

Just thought this was interesting

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