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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."

"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."

"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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