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“That man would be completely happy whose desires aroused the appropriate thoughts and activities, and whose activities attained their end in gratification,—between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence.”

Book:The Poetic Mind

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“I suppose we all see colors outside our usual spectrum in certain people. And the saddest part of life is having known what it looks like and saying goodbye while a quiet part of you hopelessly searches for it forever in shades of blue, red, and yellow. Perhaps all my writing is just a telling to others of the color I saw.”

Love Writing Desire Sadness Longing Goodbye Unrequited Love Missing Someone Colors

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

“Have you no more memories?" I am made of memories. "Speak, then.”

Love Patrochilles

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”

Philosophy

Book:Mister God, This is Anna

Source: Mister God, This is Anna

“When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.”

Desire Ignorance Possession Contemplation Phenomenon Object Plotinus

Book:The Essential Plotinus

Source: The Essential Plotinus

“Here powers failed my high imagination: But by now my desire and will were turned, Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly, By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

Love Desire Stars Imagination Transcendence

Book:Paradise

Source: Paradise

“But what good are scars if they do not ache? And what good are eyes if they do not weep? What good is desire if it does not hurt? What good is a passion if it stays ‘sleep?”

Pain Desire Spirituality Passion Literature Eyes Ache Scars Weep Quotes From Books

Book:Of Endeavours Blue

Source: Of Endeavours Blue

“Upon scanning the sky, you don't really know when one color turns into another hue. And that's sort of how I fell for you. No definitive line or moment, just a slow blend of time inked by the earth's unexplainable.”

Love Romance Desire Sky True Love Clouds Attraction First Love

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

“There are seconds of remembering you throughout the day -- moments when my heart twitches. Moments when I am hell-bent on forgetting your heaven-sent scent.”

Love Romance Desire Universe Loss Giving Up Longing Unrequited Love Losing Someone Losing Someone You Love

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

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