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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
– Oscar Wilde

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  2. Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. – Sylvain Reynard
  3. The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality. – Ricardo Derose
  4. Show me good,i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse… – phoxgrimm
  5. Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain – Jon Stewart
  6. I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
  7. It is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. – Oscar Wilde
  8. I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me – Kahlil Gibran
  9. Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain. – Anne Deavere Smith
  10. There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It’s been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls. – Janet Evanovich
  11. you calls it Possesiveness,i calls it Fear Of Loosing You. – Ehsaan Nashad
  12. We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. – Oscar Wilde
  13. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
  14. I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. – Oscar Wilde
  15. Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever. – Shelly Crane
  16. There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance. – IanAnthony Finnimore
  17. Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. – Jon Ronson
  18. No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind – Karl Marx
  19. We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
  20. Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me. – Dale Forehand
  21. There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him. – Chuck Black
  22. Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. – Erica Goros
  23. Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame. – Scott Stabile
  24. Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. – Jean Plaidy
  25. Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham
  26. Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be. – Dan Pearce
  27. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. – Oscar Wilde
  28. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  29. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. – Oscar Wilde
  30. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one’s own relations. – Oscar Wilde
  31. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
  32. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. – Oscar Wilde
  33. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. – Oscar Wilde
  34. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. – Oscar Wilde
  35. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. – Oscar Wilde
  36. …art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator. – Oscar Wilde
  37. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. – Oscar Wilde
  38. It is he who has broken the bond of marriage – not I. I only break its bondage. – Oscar Wilde
  39. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. – Oscar Wilde
  40. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde

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