#puritanism

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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#fear #happy #haunting #may #puritanism

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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#fear #freedom #hypocrisy #literature #perversion