Virginia Woolf Quotes, Dust Quotes, Desire Quotes

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

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The fewer the desires, the more peace.

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What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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