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William A. Henry III

"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."

William A. Henry III, American Journalist
Longing, Sexuality
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"I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist
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"For every man there is a deep longing."

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"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

George Eliot, British Author
Longing, Effect, Embarrassment, Feeling, Intimacy
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"I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author
Longing, Memory, Urgency, Nature, Desire
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"He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding."

Anais Nin, American Author
Longing, Wish, Denial, Understanding
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"Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist
Longing, Desire, Waiting, Attachment
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"No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
Longing, Regret, Happiness, Life, Truth
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"You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist
Longing, Hope, Fear, Desire, Silence
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"She walked away too far for me to call... and for her to hear my voice."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author
Longing, Distance, Separation, Love
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"At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author
Longing, Identity, Change, Desire

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