#desire

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#life

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#life

The best is the enemy of good. ↗

— Voltaire

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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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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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I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

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