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“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?”

Sin Lust Hypocrisy Misogyny Homosexuality Vice Pedophilia Monks

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.”

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“— Mas o que é que você faria com o Graal? — Eu iria usá-lo. — Para quê? — Para livrar o mundo do pecado. — Seria um trabalho notável, mas nem Cristo conseguiu realizá-lo. — Você pára de eliminar ervas daninhas entre os vinhedos só porque elas sempre voltam a nascer?”

Book:Heretic

Source: Heretic

“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections.”

Book:The Religious Affections

Source: The Religious Affections

“Life is like the drama on a stage. What was once declared as a sin, perhaps much worse nowadays.”

Sin Drama Live Worse

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to 'treat' this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it.”

Sin Homosexuality Psychiatry Vice Medicalization

Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“Freedom from sin is more often than not a piece of good fortune rather than a virtue.”

Chance Sin Virtue

Book:The Gods Will Have Blood

Source: The Gods Will Have Blood

“How, in such conditions, can I write (to consider only the manual aspect of that bitter folly)? I don't know. I could know. But I shall not know. Not this time. It is I who write, who cannot raise my hand from my knee. It is I who think (just enough to write), whose head is far. I am Matthew and I am the angel - I who came before the cross, before the sinning: came into the world, came here.”

Life Writing Death Sin

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“I am born to gretter thinges than to be thral to my body, or than for to make of my body a thral”

Sin Seneca Parsons Tale

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“O, fie, fie, fie! Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd: 'Tis best thou diest quickly.”

Author:William Shakespeare