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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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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
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"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
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