If there is no God, everything is permitted.
quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
quote by Franz Kafka
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
quote by Barbra Streisand
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Hurt. Healed. And Now Distanced
Hurt.
Healed.
And now distanced.
With an attitude that has abandoned,
The honesty of feelings.
With no need for a heart,
To show emotions that include love...
With a purpose to elude the topic of it.
One to ignore and to skip.
Hurt.
Healed.
And now distanced.
From thoughts of relationships.
When they appear to show up...
They are immediately dismissed.
Not permitted to wonder!
Or permitted to exist.
Relationships that close...
The door has shut.
Sealed. Bolted!
Hurt.
Healed.
And now distanced.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
quote by William S. Burroughs
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Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
quote by Theodore Dreiser
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
quote by Dag Hammarskjold
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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
quote by Paul Cezanne
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
quote by Anthony Burgess
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
quote by Franz Kafka
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This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
quote by James Bovard
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
quote by Gary Cooper
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
quote by John Malkovich
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With These Stories and Others to Come
With these stories and more...
A forgetting is not permitted!
With these stories and others to come...
A repeating will be committed.
Moving ahead for some is certain.
Many like to Spring clean,
And exchange all the curtains.
Some prefer to ignore the dust.
And oxidize they do...
Rusting and cursing,
The stagnant times they trust.
Others see this with wishes to move on!
With each day turning into night...
They await the coming of dawn.
But those who choose to argue about change...
Do the best they can,
To remain the same!
Claiming that yesterday,
Their lives were less insane!
With these stories and more...
A forgetting is not permitted!
With these stories and others to come...
A repeating will be committed.
And with the troubles today,
Existing unresisted.
Many believe good times will return.
If only they sit,
Reminiscing about it!
While everything around them,
Is left to crumble...
As praises of days gone,
Leaves those currently outraged...
In a blazing that comes,
To burn them all.
And standing to witness,
They do...
The approaching creep of a firestorm.
Without a prevention...
To stop an accepted ignorance,
Allowed as they debate their fate!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
quote by Theodore Bikel
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Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
quote by Michael Behe
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I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
quote by Godfrey Reggio
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