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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which no...

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Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige tha...

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at grou...

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with t...

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All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in f...

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...

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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you o...

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If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master...

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Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires...

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The same heart beats in every human breast.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...

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Every new star that is found in the sky will lend of its rays to the passions, and thoughts, and the...

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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

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No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...

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The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no r...

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She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, a...

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All the things that are worth doing, take time.

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of ...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrit...

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Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her he...

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I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginni...

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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more abou...

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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or mak...

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...

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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. P...

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It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever me...

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And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something befo...

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...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it...

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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or may...

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Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was aco...

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I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Every integral man has inside him, in his heart of hearts, a mystic center around which all else rev...

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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a fo...

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In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which y...

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little long...

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privileg...

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The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in ...

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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

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of wheth...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,

I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. Y...

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Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me t...

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I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,I love you directly without problems or pri...

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Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

I cannot quit your love without dying.

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Pablo Neruda100 Love Sonnets

I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is ...

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Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burni...

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my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,n...

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I touched you and my life stopped

I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread do...

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With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I fel...

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Patricia A. McKillipThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels...

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The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion r...

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