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"Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."
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"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil."

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."

"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."

"When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
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