Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Desire Quotes

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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