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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still ...more

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had...more

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.