Honore De Balzac Quotes, Women Quotes, Desire Quotes

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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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

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I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

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