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“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.”

I Can Desire Turns Fall Memories Scene Falling In Love Sentences Manage Visuals Framing

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.”

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Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”

Humans Long Body Desire Passion Memories Pleasure Seasons Human Body

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.”

Remember Desire Memories Defective

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.”

Jobs Past Desire Memories Darkness Ready Sorrow Justification Innate

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality