#sire

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ↗

— Dalai Lama

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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

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In every living thing there is the desire for love. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. ↗

— Donna Leon

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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

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