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“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?”

Two Lying Desire Grows Sides Species Naked Admire Breasts Admiration

Book:Slow Man

Source: Slow Man

“The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.”

Desire Please Conscience Admire Cripples

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.”

Mind Eye Young Joy Desire Passion Enjoy Walks Existence Vision Walking Thousand Behavior Assuming Depth Admire Live Life Unhappiness Leisure Portraits Sublime Plunge Grotesque Mind Set

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.”

Different Desire Built Admire Acknowledge Agendas Cherish Display Submit Timelessness

Author:Dominique Browning

“Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?”

Dream Desire Boys Laughing Fame Illusion Blame Senses Admire Pyramids Unattainable Outlasting

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton