Oscar Wilde quote about temptation from The Picture of Dorian Gray - The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). copy citation

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“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.” source

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