#desire

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. ↗

— Roman Payne

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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

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It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#love #power #love

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

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Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice. ↗

— Melissa Bean

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You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence. ↗

— James Joyce

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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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