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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"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."
"Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
"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 the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
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