"Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating."
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"My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life."
"She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine."
"In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling."
"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty"
"Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual."
"Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with."
"The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves."
"I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep."
"Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest."
"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
"Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."
"For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing."
"The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything"
"My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another."
"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
"I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me."
"Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time."
"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
"If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death."