"We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does."
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"If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway."
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"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."
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"Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual."
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"Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes."
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"I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true."
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"At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion."
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"People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death."
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"Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist."
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"Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself."
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"You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?"
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"What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while."
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"The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe."
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"Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence."
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"Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling."
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"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."
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"Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion."
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"You've got to lose your passion for dumbness."
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