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• No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

  Meg Cabot

  Desire, Molecules, Answers

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Husband, Complexion

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

  Lora Leigh

  May, Sample, You Choose

  Lora Leigh (2016). “Wicked Pleasure:”, p.104, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

  Bertrand Russell

  Negative, Morality, Said

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.99, Psychology Press

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

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• Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Healthy, Enemy, Degrees

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• If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Artist, Self

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

  John Calvin

  Wine, Laughing, Drink

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• It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morality, States

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• One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to
  the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked
  verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives
  his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having
  been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp
  the long and the short swords and to die

  Kato Kiyomasa

  Loyalty, Military, Reading

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• it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

  Sharon Olds

  Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire (2017). “Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive, People, Guilt

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Laughing, Christian Inspirational

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Children, Pain

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• Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.181, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.

  Puff Daddy

  Success, Sleep, Machines

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• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  Eusebius

  Christian, Men, Law

  "The Proof of the Gospel: Being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cæsarea".

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• Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

  Al-Ghazali

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  Ashoka

  Giving, Worthy, Believer

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Paris

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Sibling, Crazy, Blood

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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