"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."

Desire, Love, Dream, Power

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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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Desire, Spiritual, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Desire, Greed, Immortality, Life

"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Desire, Humor, Truth, Happiness, Power

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

Politics, Speech, Will

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"Action is character."

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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

Creativity, Idea, Writer, Youth

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

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