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“She was not alone in desiring the fullest amount of excitement and passion in her life, yet still holding to the suspicion that it might all just end in tears.”

Book:Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

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“Perhaps if his childhood had been like Clarisse’s, he would have done something else, he would have taken the time she suggested to to discover what he truly loves, what he wants to devote his days to doing, but he has not been able to shake off entirely the obligation of the utilitarian, the efficient, the concrete, nor has he been able to shake off a notion of the civil service as a grail where he is fortunate to be allowed to work. At night, as he sets his alarm clock, he sometimes thinks that it takes much longer than he expected to escape, and that if he has not put as much distance between himself and his childhood as he would have liked, the next generation can carry on where he left off. He imagines that what he is really doing in the stifling little room that serves as his office is amassing shares in freedom that he will be able to pass on to his children.”

Love Passion Freedom Sacrifice Expectations Obligation Choice Generational Trauma

Book:L'Art de perdre

Source: L'Art de perdre

“If the gospel is merely assumed, while relatively peripheral issues ignite our passion, we will train a new generation to downplay the gospel and focus zeal on the periphery.”

Passion Zeal Gospel Generation Peripheral

Author:D.A. Carson

“Gruñí contra sus labios. Cerré los ojos. Ginger me buscó de nuevo. Lento. Suave. Yo me dejé encontrar, besándola con fuerza. 'Vértigo' era aquel beso y no lo que había sentido antes. 'Vértigo' era ella. Mirarla y saber que no existía un 'nosotros'. No sé cuánto tiempo estuvimos allí. ... tan perdidos en aquel momento, ... tan cerca de la luna.”

Passion Kiss

Book:Nosotros en la Luna

Source: Nosotros en la Luna

“A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.”

War Philosophy Civilization

Book:The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters

“Elle aurait voulu le savoir plongé dans la passion comme dans une mer : que l’eau palpite sourdement à ses oreilles, que ses yeux se ferment, que les mouvements de son corps soient instinctifs, désespérés, inconscients.”

Passion

Author:Mihail Sebastian

“and sometimes this daily disappointment, this constant agony of hope deferred, would bring me to my knees by that door begging her to open to me, crying to her in every term of passionate endearment and persuasion that tortured heart of man could think to use.”

Passion Torment Angst Pathos

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I could drown in a sea of applause. But without you, it's still just be drowning.”

Love Passion Praise Manipulation Drowning Applause Trickery Applause Quotes

Book:The Conjurer

Source: The Conjurer

“There's always going to be the chance that that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all.”

Love Romance Passion

Book:Archer's Voice

Source: Archer's Voice

“Love is a kind of insanity, and many people have, while crazed with passion, ruined their lives and those of others.”

Love Life Passion Amantes Sunt Amentes

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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