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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
Privacy
"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."
Change
"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."
Evolution
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
Thought
"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."
Art
"No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way."
People
"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
Time
"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
Desire
"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
People
"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
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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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"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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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
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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 am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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