"But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because……" — Justina Chen
"But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable."
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51 Quotes by Justina Chen
Justina Chen has 51 quotes on this site.
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You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.
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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken,…
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Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
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To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
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That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you…
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Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.
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Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no…
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Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled…
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do…
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Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
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More Forbidden Quotes
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
— Karel Capek
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on…
— Frank Zappa
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
— Diane Ackerman
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
— Ovid
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
— Angela Carter
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away…
— Saint Augustine
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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