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— Sean O Faolain"Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats."
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A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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