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"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."
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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."
"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."
"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good."
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"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
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