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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Criticism
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
Education
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
Love
"Time stays, we go."
Time
"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
Perception
"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
Politics
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
Reflection
"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
Perception
"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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Personal Development
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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