"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

Desire, Day, Illness, Misfortune, Poverty

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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

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"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

Melody Lee, American Poet

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

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"I want to drink from you're life force."

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"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Success is like the most beautiful woman: pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers."

Richard H. Stoddard, American Critic

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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

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"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."

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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."

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