The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires
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I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
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When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words
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We [poets] set men free from their desires.
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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
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Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
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You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself
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The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires
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Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing
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That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world
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