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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide.
SatanParadise Lost · Book 4
🌿 Eden: The Garden
Book 4 of 12
Alone on Mount Niphates, seeing the beauty of Eden, Satan addresses the Sun in anguished soliloquy. He admits that pride and ambition led to his fall, that he can never repent, and that he carries Hell within him wherever he goes.
Why This Matters
Satan’s private confession: the bravado of Book 1 collapses. Hell is not a place but a state of mind — an ironic reversal of his own claim that "the mind is its own place."
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Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve
William Blake, 1808 · Public Domain