"Always desire to learn something useful."

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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Politeness

"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."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Desire, Limitation, Experience, Learning

"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Desire, Food, Beauty, Contrast

"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."

Madison Thorne Grey, American Author

Desire, Discipline, Power, Emotion

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire,

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Desire, Imperfection, Man

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Desire, Sadness

"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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Desire, Love, Hunger, Emptiness

"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."

John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist

Desire, Fate, Future, Man

"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."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Desire, Love, Emotion, Devotion

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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

Reflection, Grief, Regret, Responsibility

"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."

Philosophy, Madness, Fate, Destruction, Warning

"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

Forgiveness, Injustice, Light

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

Fear, Acting, Man, Word

"TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

Philosophy, Wisdom, Profit, Truth, Life

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

Man, Men

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

God, Gods, Evil

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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."

"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."

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

"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."

"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."

"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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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."

"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

"TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

"If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate."

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."