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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any v...more

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And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important... What sex should involve is a...more

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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for t...more

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I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the re...more

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Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless...more

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There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

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We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that ...more

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When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You ...more

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I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have b...more

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly a...more

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In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to k...more