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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...

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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our pas...

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What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fa...

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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...

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The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am ...

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She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of l...

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Hermann HesseNarcissus and Goldmund

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...

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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite di...

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpleton...

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most s...

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

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The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

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You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd lo...

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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved ...

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every good artist paints what he is

As the days went by, the evolution of like into love was accelerated.  White Fang himself began to g...

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Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told ...

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither di...

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One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glor...

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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the an...

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I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, n...

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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

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I have loved him too much not to hate

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what ...

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a ...

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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passio...

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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...

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Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and...

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No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gon...

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Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touc...

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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all...

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Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only ...

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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I ...

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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still ...

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Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You...

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She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the g...

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Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I d...

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You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper ...

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Jeanette WintersonWritten on the Body

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, beca...

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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary abou...

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...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself...

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Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on m...

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You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take ...

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Jiddu KrishnamurtiFreedom from the Known

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I...

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I need sex for a clear complexion but I'd rather do it for love.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have not...

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When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge f...

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...

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The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, fr...

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I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. Afte...

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He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my pass...

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The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l...

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That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is ...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls fr...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actual...

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways...

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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a...

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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; ...

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I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watchi...

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John KeatsBright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern E...

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, a...

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Passion is momentary love is enduring.

He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.

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John le CarréThe Constant Gardener

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is ed...

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Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work