#desire

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#fate #future #futures #learned #man

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#enough #faith #then #you

I have no desire to play music unless I need music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. ↗

— John Burns

#fallen #hand #help #helping #helping hand

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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