"The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul."
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"Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment."
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"I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)"
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"I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my demands for the bedroom." I flushed. Bones just chuckled and brought my hand to his lips."
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"We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness."
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"If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away."
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"While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others."
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"One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams."
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"Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong."
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"It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it."
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"Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire."
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"In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!"
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"What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old."
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"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
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"From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire."
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"The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity."
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"He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book."
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"And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect."
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"There is no limit to desire but desire's needs."
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"I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE."
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