Abu Nuwas Quotes
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
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I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
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There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
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I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
