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"I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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"Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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"If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me."
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"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
Wisdom
"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
Joy
"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
Self
"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
Future
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
Fate
"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."
Mind
"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
Life
"D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action."
Philosophy
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
Identity
"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
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