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Forbidden Quotes by Thomas Mann
- Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
- 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 observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his…
- 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…
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going… — David Bowie
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- Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree… — Frank Zappa
- After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman
- We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. — Ovid
- There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the… — Angela Carter
- In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own… — Saint Augustine
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