"Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence."

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"Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence."

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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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"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

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

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"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

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"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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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

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Desire, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."

Friendship, Friend, Being, Forget, Intellectuals

"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."

Forgiveness, Life, Obvious

"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

Poetry, War, Heroism

"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."

Creativity, Ideas, Christianity, Deep, End

"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."

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"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."

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"Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence."

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"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

Music, People, Hell, Prose

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Experience,

"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."

Truth, Dying, Lying, Pain