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"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
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"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."
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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."
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"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."
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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
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"If you can desire it, you can behold it."
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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
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"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
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"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."
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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
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"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
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"To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man."
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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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