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Very well, but - who are you?' again asked Gil Gil, in whom curiosity was beginning to get the better of every other feeling. 'I told you that when I first spoke to you - I am your friend. And bear in mind that you are the only being on the face of the earth to whom I accord the title of friend. I am bound to you by remorse! I am the cause of all your misfortunes.' 'I do not know you,' replied the shoemaker. 'And yet I have entered your house many times! Through me you were left motherless at your birth; I was the cause of the apoplectic stroke that killed Juan Gil; it was I who turned you out of the palace of Rionuevo; I assassinated your old house-mate, and, finally, it was I who placed in your pocket the vial of sulfuric acid.' Gil Gil trembled like a leaf; he felt his hair stand on end, and it seemed to him as if his contracted muscles must burst asunder. 'You are the devil!' he exclaimed, with indescribable terror. 'Child!' responded the black-robed figure in accents of amiable censure, 'what has put that idea into your head? I am something greater and better than the wretched being you have named.' 'Who are you, then?' 'Let us go into the inn and you shall learn.' Gil hastily entered, drew the Unknown before the modest lantern that lighted the apartment, and looked at him with intense curiosity. He was a person about thirty-three years old; tall, handsome, pale, dressed in a long black tunic and a black mantle, and his long locks were covered by a Phrygian cap, also black. He had not the slightest sign of a beard, yet he did not look like a woman. Neither did he look like a man... ("The Friend of Death")


Pedro Antonio de Alarcón


#death #devil #death

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.


John Gardner


#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.


David Garrick


#devil #good #heaven #meat #sends

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.


Larry Gelbart


#died #had #put #television #vaudeville

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.


Rupert Grint


#did #down #dropped #harness #high

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.


George Herbert


#between #devil #divides #superstition #world

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?


Jennifer Hudson


#banana #because #biggest #biggest thing #bring

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!


Victor Hugo


#blessed be #child #devil #doll #each

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.


William Ralph Inge


#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

Perfectionists are their own devils.


Jack Kirby


#own #perfectionists #their






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