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«Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.»
Author: Anne Roiphe
(Writer)
| Keywords:
circuitous, forbidden, heroism, know the score, rescue, scores, searching, The Kingdom
«There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob»
«There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
at bottom, cram, crammed, cramming, forbidden, in the beginning, like this, quest, quest for, spend-all, The Search, this one
«That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.»
«The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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are, become, Forbade, forbidden, forbidding, More, More popular than, popular, popular with, they, things
«The world is forbidden to those of the life to come; the life to come is forbidden to those of this world»
«Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
appetite, forbidden, for the moment, poisoned, satisfy, sinful
«Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
Forbade, forbidden, forbidding, hurtful, sin
«There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
charm, charmed, desirable, Forbade, forbidden, forbidding, makes, most desirable, unspeakably
«To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.»
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