"If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love."

Morality, Love, Duty, Ethics

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"If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love."

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her."

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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

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"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it."

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"I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."

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"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."

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"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way, as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."

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"The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence."

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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

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"Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave the world a hateful and ridiculous version of them. The most painful thing to bear is seeing a mockery made of what one loves."

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"If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."

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