"It's a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more."
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"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."
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"My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live."
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"When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be."
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"If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it."
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"I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply."
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"I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?"
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"I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another."
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"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
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"The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants."
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"All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum."
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"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
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"If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation."
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"One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others."
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"I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night."
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"Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him."
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"I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver."
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"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things."
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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing."
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"If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it."
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