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«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
Author: Germaine Greer
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backward, Californian, Californians, celibacy, chastity, discarded, fatally, folk, no value, perverse, restraint, societies, Western
«Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Celibacy,
Marriage,
Men and Women
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bee, builds, celibacy, confined, dwelling house, dwells, gathers, labors, singularities, singularity, sits, sweetness, The Fly, unites
«Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Celibacy
| Keywords:
abuse, celibacy, self-abuse
«The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.»
«It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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actual, actual sin, bachelor, celibacy, permitted, regards
«The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy»
«Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.»
«As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.»
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