We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
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