"Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter."
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"We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt."
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"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited."
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"Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection."
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"The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency."
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"Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!"
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"Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up."
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"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow."
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"...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened."
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"Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love."
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"The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion."
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"So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice."
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"The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."
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"The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed"
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"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."
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"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."
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"The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance."
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"He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal."
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"There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust."
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"It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular."
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