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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
"The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You're not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
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