"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."

Longing, Hope, Fear, Desire, Silence

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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."

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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

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

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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

"So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

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"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

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"I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

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"What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back."

Ann Brashares, American Author

Longing, Love, Desire, Pain

"Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him."

Ann Brashares, American Author

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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

"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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"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."

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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

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"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

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"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest."

Attitude

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

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"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."

Gender

"A gentleman can live through anything."

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"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."

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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

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