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Desire Quotes
"Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."
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"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."
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"Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine."
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"It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
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"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."
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"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
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"The things they say!A truck driver would blush.I would never talk that wayto Trevor he walks on water.I want him to think I do too.For a while, he did, or at leasthe pretended to.I did things with TrevorI wouldn't dare to confessto anyone-things I didn'tknow anyone did.But he wanted me to,so I did. That's what you dowhen you love someone,right?"
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"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
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"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
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"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."
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"I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me."
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"I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world."
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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
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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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"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"You, yesterday's boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose you is the great desire.Now all flesh bares itself to you.On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire.Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine.Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you.But now, like a whispering in dark streets,rumors of God run through your dark blood."
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"I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire."
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"Think clearly here-desire does not produce fun, but yearning does. To identify the transition point between these two, look at desire as accumulating or consuming, and yearning as letting go of or giving. You don't collect truth or love, for example, you give them, and in the giving they come into being. And you have fun. Real fun, guilt-free fun, resentment-free fun, doubt-free fun; you experience and become the questions you engage-discipline and strength, imagination, independence, fearlessness, trust and freedom, knowledge, truth."
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"She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA."
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"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice."
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"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
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"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
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"It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made."
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"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
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"I want to read every book that's writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue."
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"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
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"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
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