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“I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.”

Book:Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

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Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

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Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore, born in 1957, is an American writer known for his humorous, satirical, and fantastical works. more

“She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty. For passion alone is awake to it. And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.”

Passion Beauty Touch

Book:Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands "interest"?”

Philosophy Interest

Book:What is called thinking?

Source: What is called thinking?

“Passion can’t sustain itself forever.”

Life Passion

Book:The Folklore of Our Times

Source: The Folklore of Our Times

“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.”

Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it’s best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can’t last forever.”

Love Passion

Book:The Way We Fall

Source: The Way We Fall

“It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking, but there are so many domestic places, so many little ways that you can make your existence holy in how you choose to treat your loved ones and people in your community.”

Passion Holy Sacred Manners

Book:The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Source: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

“A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.”

Love Passion Knowledge

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.”

Inspirational Passion Innovation

Author:Sandesh Hukpachongbang

“An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing”

Art Soul Artist Passion Creativity Creative

Book:The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity

Source: The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it.”

Passion Knowledge

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

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