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“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.”

“Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.”

Feels Sometimes Home Desire Passionate Drawing Passionate Desire

Author:Jean Helion

“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”

Long Different States Desire Purpose Differences Comfortable Increase Drawing Income Officials Collections Bureaucracy Status Quo Bureaucrats Alterations

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.”

Way Want Soul Self Desire Willing Drawing Suits Selfishness Serving Possessed Serving God Alas Doing Good

Author:Francois Fenelon

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.”

People Thinking Want Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Lasts Film Desire Strong Audience Couple Hollywood Drawing Tickets Good Movie Lining Up

Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.”

Giving Wells Art Action Political Desire Politics Process Creative Imagine Expression Shapes Drawing Creative Process Political Action

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin