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• There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Artist, Simple

  "Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.

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• He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, Sleep, Class

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• If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

  Robert Jordan

  Ifs

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• It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

  Franny Billingsley

  Principles, Picnics, Taste

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• I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

  Libba Bray

  Hate, Eight, High Heels

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.36, Scholastic Inc.

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• My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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• For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Way, Capacity

  Adrienne Rich (2010). “A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

  Justina Chen

  Different, May, Fruit

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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.

  Yukio Mishima

  Persistence, Long, Fruit

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Men, Law

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug." Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!" "It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Eye, Slugs

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• The funniest things are the forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Novelists

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurtful, Action, Vicious

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.137, Applewood Books

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• My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

  Michael Jackson

  Fashion, Attitude, Ifs

  "Moonwalk". Autobiography by Michael Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1988.

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• In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Country, Kings, War

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fashion, Book, College

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!

  P. C. Cast

  Past, Mirrors, Fey

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• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Real, Hands Up, Numbers

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Want, Fruit

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.173, Macmillan

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• In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Angel, Night, Journey

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