"I want the wonder back again, or I shall die."
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"With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there."
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"That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me."
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"... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying."
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"You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism."
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"All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal."
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"Chinese people themselves, they really want change."
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"I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good."
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"I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to."
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"Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."
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"Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China."
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"I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!"
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"I do not want to carry any public position."
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"Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head."
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"Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question."
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"We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort."
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"First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that."
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"The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe."
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"Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing."
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"When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund"
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