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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 only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
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"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
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"I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self."
Love
"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
Psychology
"It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love."
Spiritual
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
Faith
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
Truth
"Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity."
Peace
"This was hell then, it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room."
Philosophy
"Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again."
Romance
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
Egotism
"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
Drugs
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