#desire

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. ↗

— Fay Weldon

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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

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