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"All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
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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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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
Personality
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
Opinion
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Poetry
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
Relationship
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Politics
"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
Career
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
Money
"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
Reflection
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
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