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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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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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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Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.
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I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature, a grammar in which the symbols are plants, animals, birds, fishes, earth and sky. I am merely a channel for the spirit to utilize, and it is needed by a spirit starved society.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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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.
