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"We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"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."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you."
"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."
"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."
"Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this."
"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."
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