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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.