"It is not human to be without shame and without desire."
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"Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?"
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""Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?"
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"Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love."
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"Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire."
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"Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery."
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"By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart."
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"The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?"
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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own."
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"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."
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"There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it."
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"It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents."
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"The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it."
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"A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."
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"The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself."
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"All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him"
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"She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent."
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"He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing."
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"It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact."
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