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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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good-and-evil
temptation
wickedness
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Terry Pratchett |
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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
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food
wickedness
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
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virtue
granny-weatherwax
wickedness
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Terry Pratchett |
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You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.
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vanity
wickedness
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Günter Grass |
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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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wickedness
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John Updike |
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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men
women
dishonesty
storytelling
inequality
gender
evil
wickedness
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
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fear
evil
wickedness
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James Baldwin |
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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You oh God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.
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wickedness
sin
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St. Augustine of Hippo |
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In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.
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lust
pride
wickedness
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Daniel Defoe |
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The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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wickedness
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Gregory Maguire |
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And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.
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independance
garth-nix
wickedness
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Garth Nix |