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“Lovers running each to each Feel such timid dreams catch fire Blazing as they touch, Learn what love alone can teach: Happy on a tousled bed Praise Blake's acumen who said: 'One thing only we require Of each other; we must see In another's lineaments Gratified desire'; That is our humanity; Nothing else contents.”

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“In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never “outside all social constraint.” Desire may be outside one set of constraints or another; but social constraints are what engender desire; and, one way or another, even at its most apparently catastrophic, they contour desire’s expression.”

Desire Discourse Structuralism

Book:Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Source: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

“Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that will come to your hand for a little crumb, though in plenteous times she would but mock you from the topmost bough.”

Desire Longing Secrecy

Book:Precious Bane

Source: Precious Bane

“Surrendering to desires in the moment is rational for a mortal being in an uncertain world, as long as future moments are not discounted too steeply or shortsightedly”

Desire Mortality Rationality Irrationality Discounting Function

Book:Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Source: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

“What was it, token of all our wordless and incongruent hunger that one saw here, that has never been expressed, that was so imminent, so exasperating, so impalpably near, as if the opiate of finality we had sought for our exacerbated nerves, the complete nurture we needed to stop the jaws of Cerberus was here almost within our grasp, an inch away from hope, a hand's breadth off from certainty.”

Desire Longing Frustration

Book:The Good Child's River

Source: The Good Child's River

“Scarcity makes desire, yes, but scant makes desperation, and satisfaction makes you lazy.”

Desire Poor Hard Work Laziness Scarcity

Book:Boom, Boom, Boom

Source: Boom, Boom, Boom

“Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.”

Philosophy Life Lessons Physics

Book:Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science

Source: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science

“Whether good or bad, culture should never crystallize. The beauty of culture is in its evolution. Let culture always remain in a fluid state, gradually cooking in a stew pot and adapting to the changes.”

Life Desire Culture Evolution Achievement Transformation Minimalism

Book:Quantraz

Source: Quantraz

“The wood is not the fuel. The cold is the fuel. For the cold creates the passion for the fire.”

Desire Motivation Passion Cold Determination Fuel Warmth Wood

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just as the Triune God lives as an endless momentum of attraction and joy, so God makes himself available not as an object for dispassionate scrutiny but through an overture of enticement, through which by the Spirit's agency we are made to long for God's presence, indeed, thirst for God. God "attracts our attention" by the outgoing Spirit, enabling us to respond, catching us up into the divine life. Indeed, can we not say that to experience the allure of God is nothing other than to experience the Spirit reconciling us to the Father through the Son and thus reordering our desires? No wedge need be driven between agape and eros provided the latter is not allowed to introduce notions of subsuming the "other" under manipulative restraint; indeed, as David Bentley Hart puts it, God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is "eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness." As far as created beauty is concerned, beauty in the world that glorifies this God will also evoke desire--a yearning to explore and take pleasure in whatever is beautiful. There need be no shame in this provided our delight is delight in the other as other, and as long as we regularly recall that our love for God is the cantus firmus that enables all other desires to flourish.”

Desire Beauty Eros Agape

Book:A Peculiar Orthodoxy: Reflections on Theology and the Arts

Source: A Peculiar Orthodoxy: Reflections on Theology and the Arts

“Having half of everything she wanted denied to her for so long had left her vulnerable to them; they were the forbidden fruit, and like all forbidden things, even the promise of them was delicious”

Wisdom Desire Freedom Individuality

Book:Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones