"There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust."

-- Rumi

#Self Quotes #Lust Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.”
“You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.”
“The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.”
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.”
“You cannot have more than one leader worldwide. So, you would only have one Caliph for all of the Muslim world, so whoever that is, he would have authority over all of the Muslim land and wherever the Sharia is implemented.”

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“Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.”
“My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.”
“It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.”

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