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Celibate
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Not celibate are they who wear monastic garb and shut themselves away behind thick walls and massive iron gates, But
celibate are they whose hearts and minds are celibate, whether they be in cloisters or in the public marts.
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― The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called The Ark
― The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called The Ark
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at no time in my life have I been a person to hold myself polluted by the touch or approach of any creature that wore a human shape: on the contrary, from my very earliest youth it has been my pride to converse familiarly, more Socratico, with all human beings, man, woman, and child, that chance might fling my way; a practice …. which becomes a man who would be a philosopher.
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― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
