This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich…

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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the...

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind...

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate...

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate...

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind...

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their...

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their...

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the...

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the...

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.