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"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
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"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
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"Thou art a votary to fond desire."
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
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"What I want is only a wish."
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"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."
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"Desire grows by what it feeds on."
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"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
Desire
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
Act
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
Thought
"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
Creativity
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
Perception
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
Life
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
Life
"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
Experience
"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
Action
"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
Thought
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