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• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

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• Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

  Margaret Laurence

  Fear, Pride, Wilderness

  Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel (2001). “Long Drums and Cannons”, p.38, University of Alberta

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• Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

  Dan Harris

  May, Building, Parking

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• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

  William Peter Blatty

  Powerful, Liars, Lying

  William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.355, Macmillan

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• I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

  Michael Bergin

  Mistake, Proud, Made

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• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Play, Devil, Degrees

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• I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.

  Kim Harrison

  Safety, Sick, Soul

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• There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Fear Nothing, Fear Not

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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

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• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Levels

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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 demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

  David Bowie

  Hands, Awakening, Ghost

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• Well, I looked my demons in the eyes
  laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me.
  You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times,
  I must admit you kind of bore me.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Eye, Hell And Back, Kind

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• Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

  Benny Hinn

  Spirit, Filled, Knows

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• Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Language Words, Levels, Able

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

  Naomi Watts

  Dark, Way, Twisted

  Interview with Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. October 29, 2007.

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• But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

  David Gest

  Running, Childhood, Alcohol

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• It's important to face down your demons.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Important, Faces

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  May, Torment, Our Demons

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

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• What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rebellion, Transcendental, Wells

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Vision, Quests

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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

  Steven Moffat

  Angel, World, May

  "Fictional character:Reinette". "The Girl in the Fireplace", May 6, 2006.

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• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Gene Wilder

  Believe, Names, Devil

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

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• He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

  Kohta Hirano

  Dawn, Dusk, Humans

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