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Quote by Oscar Wilde
English (Source)
Even the bravest person among us is afraid of himself. The savage's self-mutilation lives on tragically in the self-denial that limits our lives. We are punished for the things we refuse. Every impulse that we try to stifle grows in our soul and poisons us. The body sins once and is done with its sin, because action is a way of purification. Nothing remains of it, only the memory of a pleasure or the pleasure of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give in to it. Resist him, and your soul will become sick of longing for what you yourself have forbidden yourself, of biliousness for what monstrous laws have made monstrous and lawless.