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"The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."
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"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."
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"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."
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"A man desire two things: love and happiness."
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"Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests."
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"You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely."
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"To have a desire means to have dependency."
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"You get in life that which is your deep driving desire."
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"Need doesn't care about being sensible."
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"I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response."
Life
"As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become..."
Creativity
"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
Travel
"We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as 'ordinary blessings."
Reflection
"A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age."
Growth
"I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story."
Truth
"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."
Faith
"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
Life
"Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
Reflection
"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
Innocence
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