"Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it."
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"It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life."
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"Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also."
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"Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way."
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."
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"Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live."
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"I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me."
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"The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied."
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"The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself."
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"Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished."
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"Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?"
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"Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."
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"Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily."
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"One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!"
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"Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it."
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"The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high."
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"We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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