To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for …

C. S. Lewis
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
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