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"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."

"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."

"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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