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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
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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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"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
Perception
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
Desire
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
Business
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
Thought
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
Experience
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
Perception
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
Life
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
Time
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
Expectation
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
Act
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