I. L. Peretz Quotes
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
Al Pacino
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
Umar
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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
Saint Augustine
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
Alphonsus Liguori
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
Anselm of Canterbury
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?
Georges Perec
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In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.
Normandi Ellis
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If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.
David Hood
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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
I. L. Peretz
