#passions

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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In music the passions enjoy themselves. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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