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The girls forced into prostitution on the streets made me understand the beauty of chastity and the deep need for a relationship with God the Father.

— Oreste Benzi

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The collapse of the parameters for accepting oneself as male in today's society completes the picture of factors that create conditions favourable to homosexuality.

Prostitution comes from the heart, but it is also from the heart that good can begin.

The important thing is to work so that, from childhood, people can nurture the infinite love that is present within each of us.

Men must understand that if they go to prostitutes, they are contributing to the enslavement of these girls and to the growth of criminal organisations.

To stand tall, you need to know how to kneel in prayer.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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