"Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."
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"The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it"
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"In this desperate way, I started many a comedy."
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"A LeBron James team is never desperate."
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"For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live."
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"Necessity urges desperate measures."
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"When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N."
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"We don't need to respond with desperate violence."
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"You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that."
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"Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it."
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"The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything."
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"When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful."
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"A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail."
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"I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God."
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"You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it."
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"Haste is needful in a desperate case."
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"No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change."
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"All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to."
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"No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it."
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"Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else."
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