"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."
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"When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue."
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"I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love."
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"I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that."
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"Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else."
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"A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing."
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"A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness."
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"In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself."
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"The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love."
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"Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else."
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"Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket."
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"I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all."
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"The desire to know is natural to good men."
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"I have a fierce desire to paint colour."
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"No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed."
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"The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!"
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