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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Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear. . . . 'Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.'
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I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.
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Through discipline comes freedom.
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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.
