Where else is this quote used besides The Usual Suspects? "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. " I keep thinking I've seen it on a book jacket. Any ideas?
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http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=448196653&r=8411902231 This sentiment was originally expressed by Charles Baudelaire in a short story called The Generous Gambler, published February 7, 1864. The passage is translated like this: " . . . He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!'
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