#passions

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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.


George A. Smith


#deeds #evil #express #figure #habit

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.


Alfred Jarry


#bringing #character #complete #conflict #create

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.


Anna Magnani


#exist #fantasies #great #great passions #last

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.


Florence Nightingale


#bed #english #excited #farm #i

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I know you are unable to imagine this. Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.


Meg Rosoff


#death #endings #life #love #passage

Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, “I am too great a sinner to change,” or “God would not want me.” God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a “passionless passion,” a “wild tranquility.” A sinner, unrepentant, cannot love God, any more that a man on dry land can swim; but as soon as he takes his errant energies to God and asks for their redirection, he will become happy, as he was never happy before. It is not the wrong things one has already done which keep one from God; it is the present persistence in that wrong.


Fulton J. Sheen


#sin #change

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.


Marquis de Sade


#nature #passions #nature

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.


John Adams


#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.


Honore de Balzac


#cure #cured #devour #devoured #human

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.


Lynn Abbey


#great #great passions #historical #passions #trivia