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A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance and Other Essays

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...

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The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's ei...

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I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find caree...

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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, an...

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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are in...

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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak o...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like l...

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If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one ...

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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be marrie...

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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place beca...

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Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one wi...

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How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes i...

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We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived....

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I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazi...

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Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

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Scott AdamsHow to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursui...

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Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you d...

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She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she ne...

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthu...

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard do...

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused. He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two...

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm h...

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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or...

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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. Peop...

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May this night come wearing drunk cloak of love, carrying passionate desires, and intoxication of lo...

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The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm th...

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Susan CooperSilver on the Tree

brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon...

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I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I m...

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Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is u...

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...

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What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectru...

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The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating ...

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There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make ...

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The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in ...

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Tennessee WilliamsA Streetcar Named Desire

I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessl...

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God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which ...

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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...

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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seeme...

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Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortu...

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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long...

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Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

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For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It w...

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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...

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This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded fro...

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand i...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows pass...

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Her passions were narrow but deep.

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a...

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Tove JanssonThe Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart ...

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Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcom...

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Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, ...

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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...

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As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the...

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In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; ...

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In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a w...

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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking ...

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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives...

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to dr...

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Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are...

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I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even...

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Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'S...

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What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...

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In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was so...

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