"Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?"
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"I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror."
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"By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!"
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"When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?"
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"Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself."
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"This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama."
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"love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel."
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"The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist."
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"I walked away with a renewed passion for Scripture and I was powerfully reminded that God's Word really is a lamp to guide my feet along this journey of discovering who I am. I hope people will soak in the Scripture that I highlight throughout page after page of 'Hello, My Name Is' book."
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"Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough."
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"Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his."
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"He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his."
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"I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people."
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"Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers."
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"How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!"
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"Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty."
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"More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it."
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"All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate."
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"What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion."
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"While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves."
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