#desires

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. ↗

— Noah Taylor

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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too. ↗

— Parvesh Cheena

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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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The butterfly startled at Mary’s gesture and floated up, drifting on the breeze, its wings sparkling blue and bright in the late afternoon sunshine. Silence watched it, enthralled, and then her eyes met Michael’s. A corner of his mouth cocked up. “Welcome home, m’love. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

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He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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