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“What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.”

Knows Desire Found Powerful Oneself Stranger

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.”

Love Self Desire Interest Vision Fortune Casts Ill Stranger Worldly Self Interest Hinder Worldly Desires

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.”

People Believe Desire Friends Stranger Suspicion Intercourse Reserved Prerequisites

Book:The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction

Source: The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction

“Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.”

Ifs Years Looks Ideas Sometimes Desire Rooms Views Share Window Let Me Photographer Stranger Determined Treasure Curtains Furniture Gears Cooperatives Puzzled Predetermined Vantage Point

Author:John Pfahl

“I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.”

People Thinking World I Can Desire Challenges Wonder Stranger Monsters Shocking Adopted Subtlety Provocative

Author:Marilyn Manson

“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”

People Knows World Way Looks Long Desire This World Long Time Window Stranger Rear Window

Author:Will Oldham

“If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.”

Ifs Giving Art Desire Fool Presses Bounds Stranger Harm Thee Swim Spares Estates Merchants

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works