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Boredom: the desire for desires.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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