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Asita wasn’t hungry this day, however. There were other ways to keep the prana, or life current, goi...

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Deepak ChopraBuddha: A Story of Enlightenment

Asita had been raised on this knowledge. He knew also that all these planes merged into each other l...

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Deepak ChopraBuddha: A Story of Enlightenment

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hir...

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Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the f...

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God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiet...

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Frederick BuechnerSecrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...

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Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, ...

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Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

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He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are alle...

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It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

If the demons lived anywhere it was here.

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed...

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He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed...

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It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

The whole crazy business seemed to pull out of my guts the very worst in me—my worst fears—the worst...

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Lon Milo DuQuetteLow Magick: It's All in Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So ma...

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Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least...

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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

As we write we summon little demons.

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same per...

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Northrop FryeWords with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing...

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The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, in...

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When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating t...

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Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod...

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I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

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The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuf...

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Demons run when a good man goes to war.Night will fall and drown the sun,When a good man goes to war...

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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

The more consciousness there is in such a sufferer who in despair wills to be himself, the more his ...

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

The more consciousness there is in such a sufferer who in despair wills to be himself, the more his ...

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

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Tennessee WilliamsConversations with Tennessee Williams

You trust him?" he said. "No," said Hastur. "Right," said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he refle...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.'After a wh...

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They are not demons, not devils...Worse than that.They are people.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea...

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I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his ...

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Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as...

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Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in thei...

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She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent,...

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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...

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We are Morgensterns," he added, a dark ache in his voice. " The bright stars of morning. The childre...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...

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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man'...

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...Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetyp...

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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demon...

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Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the ...

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