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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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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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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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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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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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"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
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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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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
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"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
Time
"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
Media
"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."
Now
"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
"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
Resilience
"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."
Work
"The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative."
People
"Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful."
Will
"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
Age
"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
Work
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