Jiang says the damned can desire hell because they take it as the fitting consequence of what they have done, a kind of release into deserved punishment.
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"when they are crossing the akron river to come going to hell they desire it i mean donnie's explicitly remember the word desire right..."
"...close to the edge on the far side. May you be damned, O ancient wolf, whose power can claim more prey than all the..."
"...plautus where is various if you know tell me if they're damned and in what quarter all these in purchase i and many other..."
"...just a passing thing. But it's a confession of just how damned he feels by what his ambition led him to do. So make..."
"...delight was mine when I saw you were not among the damned."
"...delight was mine when I saw you were not among the damned. There were no gracious meeting we neglected before he asked me, When..."
"...have been true had not the highest priest may he be damned made me fall back into my former sins and how and why..."
"...cold shadow i know no man for whom is the warmest damned radiance divine by his fierce form his not if it was will..."
"...north of the center? Where I grasped the hair of the damned worm who pierces through the world. And you were there as long..."
"...has a new, a changed decree in heaven let you though damned approach my rocky slope?"
"...on his willpower the man who was not born damning himself damned all his progeny okay stop"
"...Where is Varius, if you know? Tell me if they are damned, and in what quarter? All these and Perseus, I and many others,..."
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