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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.


Shana Alexander


#being #difficulty #doctor #get #horizontal

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.


Yevgeny Yevtushenko


#conceived #who #yearns

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.


Eric Hoffer


#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.


Derek Walcott


#been #body #centre #god #join

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.


Eric Liu


#christian faith #every #faith #just #life

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.


Harriet Beecher Stowe


#beautiful #beautiful things #gift #god #heart

In the face of death, he had nothing to lose by speaking of the intimacies of love. Yet, in the face of life, he could speak only of its banalities.


Gerard Brooker


#oh-israel #death

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.


Freda Adler


#conformity #contradiction #creative #creature #define

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.


Johan Huizinga


#age #beautiful #confusing #deeper #depression

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.


Karl Kraus


#more #settle #shoe #sun #than






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