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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
Evil
"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
Illusion
"Writing only leads to more writing."
Writing
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Writer
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
Man
"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
Silence
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
Rights
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
Life
"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."
Dream
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