"There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire."
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"I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises."
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"The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so."
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"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires."
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"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
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"Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable."
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"You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon."
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"The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment."
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"What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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"Who doesn't desire his fathers death?"
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"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
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"The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous."
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"Smell is the sense of memory and desire."
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"This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality."
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"Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there."
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"Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy."
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"If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken."
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"The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires."
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"It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire."
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"So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world."
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