A person hears only what they understand.
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While man aspires, he errs.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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Here, too, love and life I find.
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There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.
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