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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
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Personal Development
"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
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Personal Development
"The porn isn't something interesting, you don't have pleasure even to get pleasure it really sucks to have realationship so far most of them end very earlier. To watch porn is useless, what you do it is making pervert thoughts about stuff which are brutal and aren't the way should it be made!"
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Personal Development
"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
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Personal Development
"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
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Personal Development
"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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Personal Development
"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
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Personal Development
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?"
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Personal Development
"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."
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Personal Development
"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
God
"In married life three is company and two none."
Life
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Philosophy
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
Philosophy
"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
God
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
Philosophy
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
Philosophy
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
Literature
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
Philosophy
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