#sire

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. ↗

— Will Durant

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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. ↗

— George Eliot

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I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. ↗

— Nellie Bly

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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ↗

— Sissela Bok

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And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. ↗

— Epictetus

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