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"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
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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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"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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Personal Development
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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Personal Development
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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Personal Development
"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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"If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me."
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Personal Development
"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did."
Death
"I play music the way it was played in yesteryear."
Music
"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
Music
"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
Desire
"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
Experience
"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."
Time
"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
Musicians
"I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes."
Life
"Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows."
Music
"The roots of Cuban music are in my head."
Music
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