I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin
Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
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