"Desire creates its own object."
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"There are no inanimate objects."
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"Do not underestimate objects."
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"She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it."
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"To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides"
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"When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy."
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"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
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"Morality is the object of government."
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"I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough."
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"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning."
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"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object."
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"Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith."
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"Know thyself; this is the great object."
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"The coward is an object to be pitied."
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"...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."
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"A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself."
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"As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object."
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"Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents."
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"Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object."
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"The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object."
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