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"When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"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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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."
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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"
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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
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"How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can't they make deals with God in exchange for good behavior?"It was another of those rare moments when I'd surprised Carter. I waited for the glib answer I'd mentioned to Seth, something along the lines of goodness being its own reward. The angel considered for several seconds. "Humans make those deals all the time," he said finally. "They just don't make them with God.""Then who are they making them with?" I exclaimed."Themselves."
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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
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"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man-the function of his reasoning mind."
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"There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit-and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it."
Justice
"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."
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"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
Evil
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
Sacrifice
"The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."
Self
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
Evil
"It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that's the sin that can't be forgiven-that I hadn't done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there's no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain-and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world-to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."
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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."
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