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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice an...

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to ...

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to ...

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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...

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The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are affl...

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And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, ...

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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, y...

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Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her hea...

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The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we wo...

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The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we wo...

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Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

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Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

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The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them t...

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Passion out of passion's obstacles.

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most...

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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. A...

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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God ...

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I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out...

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide...

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do...

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudde...

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a d...

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The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a pa...

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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by...

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Charles DickensThe Mystery of Edwin Drood

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the ...

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Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping.""Mr. Rochester, I must leave you.""For how ...

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I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the ...

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The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in b...

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic id...

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I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas ...

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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. N...

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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...

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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always f...

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We fucked a flame into being.

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live...

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Yeah! "I love you" is subject to the law of diminishing returns; like one or two other critical week...

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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most di...

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...

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Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct refere...

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against hi...

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Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the wo...

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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years...

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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

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By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying....

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You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning b...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

Hands have not tears to flow.

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither t...

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He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one...

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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as tr...

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Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship th...

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Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

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Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they ...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a...

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Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

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Eliphas LeviEl libro de los sabios: Obra postuma

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he ...

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He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain,...

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion ...

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I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i...

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...

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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and dee...

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I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

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I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa...

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Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile – the winds –To a h...

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Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

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