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Quote by Edith Sitwell
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. - Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3 – Bible

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