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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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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"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."
"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
"My mom's coming home soon,' I said. 'We should go to your place.'Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. 'I have rules about who I take there.' I was getting really tired of that answer. 'If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?' I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. 'Once I'm inside, I can never leave?'Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. 'Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back."
"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others."
"I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action " even an opinion is a kind of action."
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
"The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
"When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
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