"I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death."
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"How can one live without hope and longing?"
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"We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!"
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"What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us."
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"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."
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"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
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"The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order."
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"Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?"
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"Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive."
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"I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value."
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"Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground"
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"as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves"
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"Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite."
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"Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are."
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"But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them."
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"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"
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"Writing is a constant exercise in longing."
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"Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?"
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"The longing for paradise is paradise itself."
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"Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for."
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