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title: "Inspiring Longing Lines"
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> [“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/why-then-does-the-man-in-love-hang-with-complete-abandon-on-the-eyes/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/that-powers-my-desire-to-write-the-sense-of-how-quickly-everything-on/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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> [And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-walter/and-because-he-felt-like-he-might-burst-open-and-because-he-lacked/)

[Jess Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-walter/)

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> [The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalia-ginzburg/the-course-of-our-lives-follows-ancient-and-immutable-laws-with-an/)

[Natalia Ginzburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalia-ginzburg/)

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> [ The idea \[of therapy\] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/the-idea-of-therapy-isn-t-to-give-people-answers-or-lead-their-bark/)

[John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-donohue/)

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> [“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-bashevis-singer/at-moments-when-herman-fantasized-about-a-new-metaphysics-or-even-a/)

[Isaac Bashevis Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-bashevis-singer/)

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> [“What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/what-innumerable-follies-laid-waste-my-waking-and-sleeping-thoughts/)

[James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/)

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> [“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/in-the-midst-of-this-overwhelming-sunset-the-image-of-hatsumi-flashed/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bram-stoker/ordinary-men-to-whom-all-things-are-possible-don-t-often-if-ever/)

[Bram Stoker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bram-stoker/)

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> [“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/we-can-t-stop-reading-compulsively-we-find-ourselves-reading/)

[Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/)

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> [“Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/who-am-i-they-often-tell-me-i-would-step-from-my-cell-s-confinement/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/suddenly-his-expression-turned-to-alarm-he-sprinted-toward-us-for-a/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josef-pieper/if-god-really-became-incarnate-and-if-his-incarnation-can-with/)

[Josef Pieper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josef-pieper/)

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> [“Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-bow/taggle-meanwhile-made-himself-popular-killing-rats-and-bringing-a/)

[Erin Bow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-bow/)

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> [“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-winston/there-s-nothing-like-that-feeling-of-waiting-for-a-guy-it-s-the/)

[Hilary Winston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-winston/)

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> [“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ellie-mackenzie/i-looked-out-the-window-at-midnight-and-watched-the-snow-drop-slowly/)

[Sara Ellie MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ellie-mackenzie/)

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> [The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/the-collaboration-which-sometimes-follows-is-seldom-based-on-good/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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> [There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/there-is-a-quiet-light-that-shines-in-every-heart-it-draws-no/)

[John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-donohue/)

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> [“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/i-look-there-it-is-i-feel-it-the-insistent-pull-to-the-heart-that-the/)

[Helen MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

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> [We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/we-treat-desire-as-a-problem-to-be-solved-address-what-desire-is-for/)

[Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/)

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> [“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-hillman/i-did-not-know-i-was-on-a-search-for-passionate-aliveness-i-only-knew/)

[Anne Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-hillman/)

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> [Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/ontologically-chocolate-raises-profoundly-disturbing-questions-does/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“When she finally grew still, a taut silence settled over them. From the corner of his eye he could see her worrying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/when-she-finally-grew-still-a-taut-silence-settled-over-them-from-the/)

[Catherine Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-anderson/)

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> [“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beau-taplin/i-need-to-move-around-a-bit-to-shuffle-my-surroundings-to-wake-up-in/)

[Beau Taplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beau-taplin/)

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> [We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-cormier/we-all-start-out-with-the-same-alphabet-we-are-all-unique-talent-is/)

[Robert Cormier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-cormier/)

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> [“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver-poet/the-snow-cricket-just-beyond-the-leaves-and-the-white-faces-of-the/)

[Mary Oliver poet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver-poet/)

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> [Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-pitter/vain-vision-when-the-changing-world-each-day-sees-some-such-lordly/)

[Ruth Pitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-pitter/)

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> [For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/for-the-air-of-lonely-men-surrounded-him-now-a-still-atmosphere-in/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/one-of-the-interesting-things-about-outsidership-is-that-underneath/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-mosley/we-must-remember-that-there-s-more-than-one-story-and-plot-in-every/)

[Walter Mosley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-mosley/)

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> [“Don't get entangled With what you long for or dislike. Not seeing what you long for is suffering; So also is seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/don-t-get-entangled-with-what-you-long-for-or-dislike-not-seeing-what/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“ When Your Life Looks Back, When your life looks back-- As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say? Inch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/when-your-life-looks-back-when-your-life-looks-back-as-it-will-at/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

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> [Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-damascus/gluttony-should-be-destroyed-by-self-control-unchastity-by-desire-for/)

[John of Damascus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-damascus/)

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> [The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/the-sovereign-quality-of-wilderness-is-the-same-wherever-encountered/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

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> [All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bly/all-of-japan-once-a-year-will-get-up-on-their-rooftops-because-that-s/)

[Robert Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bly/)

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> [I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-dee/i-had-a-longing-for-ritual-something-i-could-cling-to-a-routine-to/)

[Jack Dee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-dee/)

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> [“Bygones" The weatherman says heavy rain, instead it dribbles like an old man unable to urinate. In the small orbit of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-karaszi/bygones-the-weatherman-says-heavy-rain-instead-it-dribbles-like-an/)

[Robert Karaszi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-karaszi/)

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> [Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eberhard-arnold/our-gifts-seem-so-small-in-comparison-to-god-s-but-our-efforts-count/)

[Eberhard Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eberhard-arnold/)

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> [There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/there-has-never-been-a-time-in-which-i-have-been-convinced-from/)

[Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/)

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> [“I don’t want to go through this. I don’t want to be without her. I don’t want to miss her like I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurelin-paige/i-don-t-want-to-go-through-this-i-don-t-want-to-be-without-her-i-don/)

[Laurelin Paige](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurelin-paige/)

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                        "text": "“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is his immortal part that longs for her; it is always the mortal part alone that longs for everything else. That eager and even ardent longing, directed to a particular woman, is therefore an immediate pledge of the indestructibility of the kernel of our true nature…” ―from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 559”",
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                        "text": "“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...”",
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                        "text": "“What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read.”",
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                        "text": "“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what that tremor of the heart had been. It was a kind of childhood longing that had always remained—and would forever remain—unfulfilled. I had forgotten the existence of such innocent, all-but-seared-in longing: forgotten for years to remember what such feelings had ever existed inside of me. What Hatsumi had stirred in me was a part of my very self that had long lain dormant. And when the realization struck me, it aroused such sorrow I almost burst into tears. She had been an absolutely special woman. Someone should have done something—anything—to save her.”",
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                        "text": "Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.",
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                        "text": "“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky, and see faces, lost cities, defeated armies. Isolated in the dark, with nothing to hear and no surfaces to touch, we hallucinate reading-matter. Our craving becomes generalized – for 'the meaning of life'. If we lived alone in a featureless desert we should learn to place the individual grains of sand in a moral or aesthetic hierarchy. We should long to find the greatest grain of sand in the world, and even (in order to find a fixed point of orientation in time as well as in space) the all-time greatest grain of sand; the grain of sand whose discovery changed our whole understanding of grains of sand for ever.”",
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                        "text": "“Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house. Who am I? They often tell me I would talk to my warden freely and friendly and clearly, as though it were mine to command. Who am I? They also tell me I would bear the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win. Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all. Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army, fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!”",
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                        "text": "Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.",
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                        "text": "If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.",
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                        "text": "“Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: \"Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too.\" Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.”",
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                        "text": "“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing of mine to possess the hawk's eye. To live the safe and solitary life; to look down on the world from a height and keep it there. To be the watcher; invulnerable, detached, complete. My eyes fill with water. Here I am, I think. And I do not think I am safe. ”",
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                        "text": "We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.",
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                        "text": "“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths; to know that our lives are sacred; that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real.”",
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                        "text": "Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?",
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                        "text": "“When she finally grew still, a taut silence settled over them. From the corner of his eye he could see her worrying her lip, her small white teeth sinking into the soft pink flesh. Remembering how those lips felt beneath his, another surge of longing knotted his guts, making him recall the plans he had made for the evening--plans that were now drifting away on the wind. He wanted her, yes, but not if it meant forcing her. “I suppose that…” Her voice trailed off. She plucked nervously at her skirt, then ran her fingertips up the line of buttons on her bodice. She glanced around nervously, still nibbling her lip. “I, um, haven’t forgotten my promises to you.” “This is good.” Hunter watched her with gentle amusement. “A promise is a promise, even when given under unusual circumstances. You kept up your part, and--” She seemed unable to meet his gaze. “I’m sure you expect me to keep up mine.” A dark flush crept up her neck. “I, um, guess you had Amy taken to your mother’s so we could--so we could…” She looked so distressed that Hunter took pity on her. “Ah, yes, we have a bargain, do we not?” He forced a long and very loud yawn. “My heart is heavy to say these words, Blue Eyes, but I am sure enough weary after traveling so far, eh?” Her expression brightened so visibly that he nearly chuckled. “Oh, but of course!” she exclaimed in a shaky little voice. “You’ve ridden a very long way. You must be exhausted.” He yawned again and patted the fur beside him. “You will lie beside me.” “But what about Amy?” “Your Aye-mee is with my mother, yes? The woman who is mean like a buffalo. She is safe. You will be easy about her until the sun shows its face.” His voice turned husky. “ Keemah , come.”",
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                        "text": "“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, the be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.”",
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                        "text": "We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.",
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                        "text": "“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow cricket As it went flying From vine to vine, Searching, then finding a shadowed place in which To sing and sing… One repeated Rippling phrase Built of loneliness And its consequences: longing And hope… It was trembling With the force of its crying out, And in truth I couldn’t wait to see if another would come to it For fear that it wouldn’t, And I wouldn’t be able to bear it I wished it good luck, with all my heart, And went back over the lawn, to where the lilies were standing On their calm, cob feet, Each in the ease Of a single, waxy body Breathing contentedly in the chill night air; And I swear I pitied them, as I looked down into the theater of their perfect faces- That frozen, bottomless glare.”",
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                        "text": "Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.",
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                        "text": "For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.",
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                        "text": "“ When Your Life Looks Back, When your life looks back-- As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say? Inch of colored ribbon cut from the spool. Flame curl, blue-consuming the log it flares from. Bay leaf. Oak leaf. Cricket. One among many. Your life will carry you as it did always, With ten fingers and both palms, With horizontal ribs and upright spine, With its filling and emptying heart, That wanted only your own heart, emptying, filled, in return. You gave it. What else could do? Immersed in air or in water. Immersed in hunger or anger. Curious even when bored. Longing even when running away. \"What will happen next?\"-- the question hinged in your knees, your ankles, in the in-breaths even of weeping. Strongest of magnets, the future impartial drew you in. Whatever direction you turned toward was face to face. No back of the world existed, No unseen corner, no test. No other earth to prepare for. This, your life had said, its only pronoun. Here, your life had said, its only house. Let, your life had said, its only order. And did you have a choice in this? You did-- Sleeping and waking, the horses around you, the mountains around you, The buildings with their tall, hydraulic shafts. Those of your own kind around you-- A few times, you stood on your head. A few times, you chose not to be frightened. A few times, you held another beyond any measure. A few times, you found yourself held beyond any measure. Mortal, your life will say, As if tasting something delicious, as if in envy. Your immortal life will say this, as it is leaving.”",
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                        "text": "Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.",
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                        "text": "The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each has an unsurpassed lilt which bursts from the deepest wellsprings of life. These are the realities found in the wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains.",
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                        "text": "All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.",
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                        "text": "I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.",
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                        "text": "“Bygones\" The weatherman says heavy rain, instead it dribbles like an old man unable to urinate. In the small orbit of the car, daylight clings to my collar, simmers in sweat, but I shall drive despite this meridian fry. I travel in the tremble of tin and tires. Up ahead, Barron Lake, your lost butterfly locket, Woodport, the warm rocks before the dive. The sun legs gently over the turbine hills, and always with a little luck I find your house, where torn cotton knits dry on an iron gate, and a vintage bicycle sinks in the garden. Over rum we discuss the length of our severance, agree to let bygones vanish amid the fray. Then kisses wheedle the lower back down till daybreak quiet as cat paws... treads the bedroom floor.”",
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                        "text": "Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.",
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