“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
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