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In the early days of Christia...

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

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The art of dancing stands at ...

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

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The sun, the moon and the sta...

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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However well organized the fo...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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The absence of flaw in beauty...

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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A sublime faith in human imbe...

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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It is only the great men who ...

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

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One can know nothing of givin...

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

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Pain and death are part of li...

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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Thinking in its lower grades,...

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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'Charm' - which means the pow...

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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Greek is the embodiment of th...

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

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The prevalence of suicide, wi...

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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Of woman as a real human bein...

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

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The family only represents on...

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

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What we call 'morals' is simp...

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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The more rapidly a civilizati...

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

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At the present day the crude ...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

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A man must not swallow more b...

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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Every artist writes his own a...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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