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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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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."

"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."


"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."


"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."


"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."


"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."


"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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