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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
from the book "Written on the Body" by Jeanette Winterson
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Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Posted by: Nike Valentine Rose
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So great is the sweetness of glory, that one loves whatever things it is attached to, even death.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
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A total absence of hope has nothing to do with despair.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
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Posted by: Cheope
I want to be little again; Skinned knees hurt a lot less than broken hearts.
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Posted by: asterisco
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
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Posted by: Francesca Nacca
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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If you express a wish it's because you see a star fall, if you see a star fall it's because you're looking at the sky and if you're looking at the sky it's because you still believe in something.
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