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«Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.»
«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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«Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.»
«I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don?t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don?t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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another, Another World, an explanation, desire, discover, experience, explanation, in this, In this World, made, myself, probable, satisfy, within
«Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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«Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.»
Author: Robert Collier
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«Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.»
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