Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Section 6Jack Vance
I prostrate in front of the memory of Mircea, my unforgettable friend. I am, in my moments of sadness, obliged to those who have permitted me to say that we have loved him, admired him, respected him and that once more he, Mircea, does never cease to be missed spiritually and emotionally, by all of us. But his work, so rich, so immense, still exists.
Mircea Eliade
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.
Ambrose Bierce
'But,' I [Dmitri Karamazov] asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
—Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard?
—Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.Donald Barthelme
Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
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