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"Once someone asked, when I was present, what constituted the greatest pleasure in love. Someone replied, naturally: in receiving. Another: in giving. Someone said: the pleasure of pride! someone else: the ecstasy of humility! All these muckers making like the Imitation of Christ. Finally, an impudent utopian was found who insisted that the greatest pleasure of love was in forming new citizens for the fatherland. Me, I said: what is uniquely, supremely voluptuous about love lies in the certainty of doing evil."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving."
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"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."
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"Relish what is good and expedient."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
Change
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
Language
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man
"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
Heaven
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