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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There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.
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He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.
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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.
