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Desire Quotes
"It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that."
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"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers."
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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
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"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust."
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"My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it."
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"I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault."
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"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars."
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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
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"I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did."
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"Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy."
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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
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"Oh, sweet! New man meat's made it to town, y'all. Let's gobble."
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"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."
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"We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us."
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"Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed."
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"Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."
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"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
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"I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame."
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"How many things there are which I do not want."
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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
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"It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much."
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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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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted-? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?"
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"She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls."
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"Desires are done by the 'Pudgal' (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don't you stop it? But that doesn't happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex)."
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