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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: [words-and-humor]
tags: [beauty, ethics, life, literature]
description: "On the moral duty to protect beauty, even one's own."
---

> 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.

— Katherine Anne Porter. Wikiquote Quote of the Day.