"There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin."
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"The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied."
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"All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born."
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"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."
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"Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough"
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"Love is an angel disguised as lust."
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"When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him."
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"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them."
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"Love is the great conqueror of lust."
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"I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there."
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"People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!"
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"The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man."
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"Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train."
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"Love is madness, and lust is poison."
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"We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb."
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"Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!"
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"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it."
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"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate."
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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties."
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"If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital."
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