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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

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There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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