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“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.”

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Author:Jean Helion

“That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.”

Doe Stills Spirit Desire Wish Prayer Succeed Prove Expectations Silent Passionate Surrender Anxious Submission Passionate Desire

Book:Sermons ...

Source: Sermons ...

“I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.”

World Way Want Book Home Desire Husband Letters Dresses Passionate Likes Privacy My Husband Dislike Home Life Likes And Dislikes Passionate Desire Personal Privacy

Book:Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

Source: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”

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Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.”

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Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey