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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
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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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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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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."
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"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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"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
Man
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
Change
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
Experience
"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."
Difference
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
Life
"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."
Fire
"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."
Man
"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."
Self
"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
Desire
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