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My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the ...

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...

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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passi...

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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for pe...

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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passi...

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

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...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring th...

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The ruling passion be it what it will the ruling passion conquers reason still.

The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Alexander PopeEssay on Man and Other Poems

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in youn...

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The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfar...

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...

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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourse...

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Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through s...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Your passion is your connection to God.

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I t...

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Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woma...

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Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. No...

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Anaïs NinA Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two bei...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.

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Anaïs NinMirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved...

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, ...

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Andre DubusMeditations from a Movable Chair

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul ...

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But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deser...

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul ...

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...

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I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you ar...

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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upo...

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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not le...

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If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with fo...

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Antonin ArtaudThe Theater and Its Double

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...

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Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced i...

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For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if ...

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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can lov...

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The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrink...

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They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smash...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her sou...

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Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought o...

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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I sa...

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What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combinati...

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Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why ...

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I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for...

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Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things i...

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the lo...

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But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things i...

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In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human lif...

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Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody wh...

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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellec...

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The human race has been set up. Someone somewhere is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently w...

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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

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