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"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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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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"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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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"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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"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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"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."
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"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people."
People
"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."
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"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
Losing
"One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more."
Dream
"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."
Beginning
"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
People
"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."
Truth
"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
Relationship
"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
Desire
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