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"They no longer wanted to entice anyone, all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus."
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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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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Beginning
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Evil
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
Life
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
Independence
"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
Bible
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
Evil
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
Nature
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