"I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered."
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"The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter."
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"Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others"
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"In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist."
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"When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively."
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"Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time."
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"Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be."
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"In every living thing there is the desire for love."
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"It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man."
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"Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God."
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"The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous."
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"A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life."
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"That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires."
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"Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations."
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"The end of desire is the end of sorrow."
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"I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over."
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"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."
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"Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived."
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"Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason."
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