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David Levithan

"Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor."

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"Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor."

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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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"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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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."

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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

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"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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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"I hate the phrase 'more than friends'," Joni told me one night not long ago. "It's such nonsense. When I'm going out with someone, we're not 'more than friends' - most of the time, we're not even friends. 'More than friends' makes no sense. Look at us. There's nothing more than us."
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"They have left the first stage of romance-the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don't really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure."
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