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“Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.”

Ifs Desire Born Intellectual Curiosity Illness Cures Mastery Intellectual Curiosity

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”

Want Doe Desire Evil Demand Criticism Cures Peculiar Fulfilled Pretext

Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.”

Mind Desire Cures Great Minds

Book:Purcell, Didon et Enée

Source: Purcell, Didon et Enée

“A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.”

Love Desire Hate Cases Objects Capacity Disappointment Cures Objects Of Desire

Author:Norm MacDonald