“The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind."(Marco)”
“Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself. She really believed this because her husband told her so. "I am the devil himself," he told her frequently.”
“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”
“Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.”
“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”