quotes about Celibacy
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Celibacy is exhausting.
-- Beatrice WoodSource : Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood (2001). “Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood”, Guild
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
-- Jeremy Taylor -
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Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
-- Sean O Faolain -
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
-- Socrates -
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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
-- William P. Leahy -
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.
-- Mallory Ortberg -
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
-- Betty Jane WylieSource : 1988 All in the Family: A Survival Guide for Living and Loving in a Changing World.
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
-- Roger LewisSource : Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone
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