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"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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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
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"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
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Personal Development
"What I want is only a wish."
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Personal Development
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."
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"Go for the desire you dare to dream."
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Personal Development
"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."
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"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"
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Personal Development
"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."
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Personal Development
"No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
Identity
"I have a visual imagination."
Creativity
"All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward."
Education
"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."
Healing
"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"
War
"I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness."
Emotion
"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
Love
"Poppies in JulyLittle poppies, little hell flames,Do you do no harm?You flicker. I cannot touch you.I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.And it exhausts me to watch youFlickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.A mouth just bloodied.Little bloody skirts!There are fumes that I cannot touch.Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?If I could bleed, or sleep!If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,Dulling and stilling.But colorless. Colorless."
Poetry
"I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter."
Politics
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