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“I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.”

Doe Has Beens Play Earth Desire Artist Given Roles Circumstances Unique Filled Ill Profession Sickness

Book:Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch

Source: Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch

“Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.”

May Desire Order Pleasure Grace Please Sick Pity Ease Sickness Vigor Delicacy Infirmity Gracefulness

Book:Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

Source: Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

“What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”

Heart Desire Mystery Blood Drug Equal Flow Alcohol Obsession Sickness Sensitivity Ebb And Flow

Author:Anais Nin

“You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.”

Knows Want Mother Desire Father Comfort Sickness

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings