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"No, you can ask for a beautiful, witty, intelligent yet minxy woman in your arms every night, a mansion on a hill-or better yet in the sky-and the best bodyguards to protect you when someone does inevitably try to kill you. For starters."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"In the corner of her eye she caught her daughter's shoulders drop as Alex exhaled with uncommon soberness. "So you trust me, and you understand that I will never do anything I think might hurt you.Miriam stopped outside the armory and pivoted to her daughter. "Alex, what have you done?"
Trust
"It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose."
Emotion
"He simply preferred the sensation of soil beneath his feet and wind in his hair, of fresh, non-recycled air which carried on it the scent and taste of life. He preferred what was solid and real, where if you could see it you could touch it, feel its texture between the tips of your fingers. As far as he knew, no one had ever touched a star. Not even her."
Nature
"Alex thrust her hand and half her arm into the labyrinth of light. Her stare blanked, and in the halo of the matrix her eyes and glyphs blazed so radiantly she looked as if she were being consumed by a primordial fire."She just stuck her hand into Machim Command's central server matrix!Caleb smiled, watching on in blatant awe. "She does that."
Technology
"You ask me to make peace with the monsters who did this?She didn't even look around at 'this.' "Yes. The alternative is extinction. There's no coming back from that-no new weapon to fire when no one is left and you've no universe left to fire it in."
Survival
"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."
Ambiguity
"Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.Only one got off a shot."
Danger
"What do you want me to do? Arrest them all? "When you can, absolutely. "And when I can't? "Do whatever is necessary to remove their ability to act against us-against humanity. "You mean kill them. Her expression darkened in what he sensed was sorrow, but her shoulders rose. "If that's what it takes."
Justice
"Caleb reached up and slid the tie out of her hair to let it fall free. "You were crazy to do it. But I love you because you're wild and fearless, not in spite of it, and I know the price.He sensed her cringe against him. "Which is?"At random and unexpected times, you terrify the life out of me."
Love
"No, you can ask for a beautiful, witty, intelligent yet minxy woman in your arms every night, a mansion on a hill-or better yet in the sky-and the best bodyguards to protect you when someone does inevitably try to kill you. For starters."
Desire
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