"All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies."
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"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
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"The law is reason unaffected by desire."
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"The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires."
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"All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves..."
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"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."
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"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"
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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
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"The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation."
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"There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit."
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"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"
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"The fewer the desires, the more peace."
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"To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer."
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"Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying."
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"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
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"If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it."
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."
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"Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself."
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