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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinni...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presqu...

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Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him the...

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The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me ...

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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be hap...

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By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much...

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison w...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...

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Oswald ChambersBiblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our a...

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Her passions were narrow but deep.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...

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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her qu...

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I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

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Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of nat...

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The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached...

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God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working