We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
The best things in life are censored.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
