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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire

Life, Devil, Doe

Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Charles Baudelaire

Horror Genre, New Day, Devil

I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

Charles Baudelaire

Hysteria, Seductive, Devil