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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Imagination, Lovers

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.8, Seal Press

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• Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Taken, Punishment

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Divorce

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Adults, Noses

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• The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

  John of Kronstadt

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

  John of Kronstadt

  Taught Us, Devil, Way

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• Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, Forever, Tears

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• Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.

  John of Kronstadt

  Powerful, Mean, Pride

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• Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to do everything in opposition to what Christ did and does.

  John of Kronstadt

  Men, Enemy, Devil

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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there in anticipation by hope. But in reality, for the greater part, the contrary is the case. Men cling with their whole being to the earth and everything earthly.

  John of Kronstadt

  Reality, Men, Dwelling

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• When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Instinct, Reservations

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

  Vera Pavlova

  Running, Home, Way

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• You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

  Dolly Parton

  Infidelity, Mouths, Bass

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• From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.

  William Styron

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

  Jared Diamond

  Sex, Sibling, Opposites

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• Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

  Christopher West

  Thinking, Feet, Catholic

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• When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

  Deion Sanders

  Stupid, Committed

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• There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Hands, Atheism, Together

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• Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

  Garth Brooks

  Men, Infidelity, Papa

  Song: Papa Loved Mama, 1991

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• She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

  Bryan Adams

  Infidelity, Found, Dies

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• No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Betrayal, Writing, Journey

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• Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

  David Allan Coe

  Infidelity, Praying, Cheat

  Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995

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• The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Men, Roles

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.219, e-artnow

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