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+name: "Katherine Anne Porter on Beauty as Moral Duty"
+date: 2026-06-21
+link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter"
+linkText: "en.wikiquote.org"
+source: "Wikiquote"
+topics: [quotes]
+tags: [beauty, ethics, life, literature]
+description: "On the moral duty to protect beauty, even one's own."
+---
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+> 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.
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+— Katherine Anne Porter. Wikiquote Quote of the Day.