James A. Baldwin
Writer
"To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you."
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Overwhelming Desire
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Sylvester Stallone
Actor, Filmmaker
"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
Milan Kundera
Writer
"She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express."
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