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title: "6 Common Desire Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andreas-capellanus/love-is-a-certain-inborn-suffering-derived-from-the-sight-of-and/)

[Andreas Capellanus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andreas-capellanus/)

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> [I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/i-ve-talked-to-nearly-30-000-people-on-this-show-and-all-30-000-had/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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> [One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-di-novi/one-common-desire-that-every-human-being-has-is-to-love-and-be-loved/)

[Denise Di Novi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-di-novi/)

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> [“First, our common desire and duty as Christians must be to enter into the full purpose of God for us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-w-stott/first-our-common-desire-and-duty-as-christians-must-be-to-enter-into/)

[John R.W. Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-w-stott/)

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> [It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-very-common-for-us-to-desire-most-what-we-are-least-qualified/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/two-people-can-remain-in-love-a-phrase-made-practically-useless-by-2/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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