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“The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.”

Art Pain Law Desire Effort Break Struggle Wall Construction Break Through Tangled

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.”

Heart Desire Enjoy Break Heart Break

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”

Men Desire Strong Interest Half Enemy Watches Break Masters Conscience Fellows Violent Crush Gates Approval Dread Herds Vigilant Censure

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.”

Wells Desire Understanding Break Communication Understood

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.”

Way Heart Stills Age Today Desire Energy Heaven Break Youth Tomorrow Golden Flames Immortal Yearning Grain Aspire Harvest Earnest Heart Break Portal

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.”

Hard Desire Half Break Grace Lovers Mediocrity Salt Mediocre Giver Complacency

Book:The Flowering Tree

Source: The Flowering Tree

“Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

Men Needs Self Desire Values Hate Loses Break Atheism Wall Promise Thee Curse Self Respect Suspects Curtains Thyself Profitable Hypocrite

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”

Moments Might Joy Desire Levels Break Fire Higher Scene Draws Crowds Disaster Flames Intensity Unusual Break Through Higher Level Morbidity

Author:Maya Deren

“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”

Soul Body Spiritual Desire Christ Religious Break Worship Casts Tyranny Selfishness Founders Marvelous Religious Faith Dominance

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.”

Men Way Mean Reason Moments Desire Imagination Break East Muscles Relax Vow

Author:George Eliot

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?”

Want Heart Might Desire Break Conscience Devices

Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires