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God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

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I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

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A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

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Well, I am no village cunning woman, no frightened merry-begot, but a woman born to riches, andeducated from the time I can remember, and given all th...more

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I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...

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I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.

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Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off ev...more

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How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in th...more

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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

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The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.

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Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

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I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very ...more

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God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what the first organic cells did, Lestat, increased and ...more

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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them...more

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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.