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“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”

Self Enough Desire Culture Gone Fashion Shapes Contemporary Emphasis

Author:Lionel Trilling

“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Ifs Men Love Long I Can Spirit Desire Love Is Company Liberty Gone One Thing Beats Wings Slave Bounds Telling The Truth Inspirational Love Mastery Farewell One Love Long Love Gone Love

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.”

Ifs Way Wells Light Desire Dark Gone Fire Woods One Way Burning Heat What If Changing Your Life Dark Woods

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.”

Desire Lost Gone Forever Trump Yearning

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.”

I Can Desire Gone Haste

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”

“in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.”

Needs Firsts Humans Two Soul Desire Human Beings Effort Gone Loneliness Manners Consideration Good Man Civilized Inherent Good Manners Courteous Gallantry

Author:Ilka Chase

“In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.”

Way Has Beens Soul Feelings Desire Gone Seeing Conscious Unconscious Recognizing Kindles Revive Desire To Live

Book:Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

Source: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

“Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.”

Desire Gone Habit Occasional

Author:Mason Cooley

“...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.”

Ifs Want Humans Would Be Desire Gone Forever Human Life Enjoyment Dependent Live Forever Frailty

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards