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Doris Lessing

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

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"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."

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"The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes."

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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

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"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."

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"Sin is geographical."

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"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."

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"In this sinful world, there is no such thing as enjoying life; not in a world where everybody is happily having a bubble bath of sin. John 14"

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"For a married woman to flirt is a sin."

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"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."

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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."
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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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"What is a hero without love for mankind."
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