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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
Humor
"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette."
Time
"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."
Family
"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
"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."
Age
"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
Villain
"I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart."
Heart
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
Friendship
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
Rights
"Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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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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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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