Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.
Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for._ There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
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Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for._ There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
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