The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. — Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter : American Journalist
Born: May 15, 1890
Died: September 18, 1980
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers …
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. Sea…
I always say beauty is only sin deep. Hector Hugh Munro…
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself t…
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-p…
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging …
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers …
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. Sea…
I always say beauty is only sin deep. Hector Hugh Munro…
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself t…
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-p…
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging …
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny …
I’ve always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of th…
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in th…
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges…
You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don…
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I w…
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abr…
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. Marga…
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your…
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry an…
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animat…
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my …
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so cons…
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of pow…
