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• The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

  Larry Kramer

  Love, Hate, Ideas

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• Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Heart, Roots

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect. Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?

  Jojo Moyes

  Husband, Eye, Energy

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

  Augusto Boal

  Grass, Walks

  "Games for Actors and non-Actors". Book by Augusto Boal, p. xxvi, 1992.

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• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  Umar

  Bears, Easier, Scholar

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• The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Western

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• Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Desire, Looks, Unbearable

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• Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Los Angeles, Charm

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• For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Law

  "On the Priesthood", Book II,

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• If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  Country, America, Able

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• We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

  Jo Grimond

  Immigration, Finals, Emigration

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• It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

  Philemon

  Men, Self, Order

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• Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Fighting, Reality

  Michael Hastings (2012). “The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan”, p.203, Penguin

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• We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Together, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

  Deena Metzger

  Writing, Stories, Process

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• Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Unions, Lost, Bargaining

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brave, Unions, Inspired

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Men, Judging

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.

  Dan Wells

  Men, Land, Survivor

  Dan Wells (2013). “Fragments (Partials, Book 2)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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