Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
We fear the thing we want the most.
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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