Jean Garrigue quotes
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“If we get used to life that is the crime ...”
-- Jean GarrigueSource : Jean Garrigue (1953). “The Monument Rose: Poems”
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“Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.”
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“Who loves his pain denies his god.”
-- Jean GarrigueSource : Jean Garrigue (1992). “Selected Poems”, p.56, University of Illinois Press
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“He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.”
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“Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.”
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“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”
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“Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.”
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“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”
Source : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1
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