Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wish Quotes, Desire Quotes

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

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And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

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