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• All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

  Henry James

  Rome, Branches, Might

  Henry James (2016). “The Turn of the Screw”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

  Cal Thomas

  Letting Go, Real, 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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• Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom, Differences

  Wallenstein's Camp sc. 6 (1798)

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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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• Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

  Alain Robert

  Nice, Being Nice, Sometimes

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• Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Cutting, Cfs

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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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• One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Forefathers

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• I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

  John Key

  Sex, Fruit, Firsts

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• I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Sex, Book

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.38, Random House

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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• Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

  Horace

  Destiny, Trying, Ends

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 11, l. 1

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• prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Expectations, Outlook

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

  Ray Charles

  Stupid, Generosity, Giving

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press

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• If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

  Osman Baydemir

  Years, Names, Language

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• The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Summer, Winter, Order

  "Camelot" (song) (1960)

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• O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

  John Milton

  Strong, Wine, Thinking

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

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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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• 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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• If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Want Something, Next Day, Craving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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