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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.
