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title: "Inspiring Longing Thoughts"
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> [The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-longing-of-the-mind-is-to-be-extraordinary-the-ego-thirsts-and/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-marie-moning/i-am-the-man-you-ve-needed-all-you-life-i-can-give-you-whatever-you/)

[Karen Marie Moning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-marie-moning/)

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> [History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/history-overflows-time-love-overflows-the-allowance-of-the-world-all/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-funke/from-the-tower-battlements-dustfinger-looked-down-on-a-lake-as-black/)

[Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-funke/)

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> [“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-chopin/she-had-tried-to-forget-him-realizing-the-inutility-of-remembering/)

[Kate Chopin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-chopin/)

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> [If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carole-maso/if-writing-is-language-and-language-is-desire-and-longing-and/)

[Carole Maso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carole-maso/)

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> [I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-crewdson/i-don-t-deliberately-look-for-something-dark-or-bleak-or-disconnected/)

[Gregory Crewdson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-crewdson/)

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> [No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-zemeckis/no-one-can-actually-define-love-but-you-attempt-to-and-the-closest/)

[Robert Zemeckis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-zemeckis/)

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> [“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-shun-lien-bynum/she-hears-the-word-bell-or-orchard-or-swallow-and-she-experiences-a/)

[Sarah Shun-lien Bynum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-shun-lien-bynum/)

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> [This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ai-weiwei/this-week-the-world-gathers-in-beijing-for-the-2008-olympic-games/)

[Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ai-weiwei/)

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> [Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-of-norwich/glad-and-merry-and-sweet-is-the-blessed-and-lovely-demeanour-of-our/)

[Julian of Norwich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-of-norwich/)

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> [Every time I talk about memories between us, I feel myself light up and feel the big smile forming, the one you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/every-time-i-talk-about-memories-between-us-i-feel-myself-light-up/)

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

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> [“You do see me crossing the meadow stiff and dead from the mist? I long for that home, that home I've never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-walser/you-do-see-me-crossing-the-meadow-stiff-and-dead-from-the-mist-i-long/)

[Robert Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-walser/)

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> [“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/young-bindo-altovini-looking-out-from-time-made-a-perfect-coalition/)

[Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-helprin/)

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> [“إنني أعتبر الإيمان بهذه الطريقة، مثل البستان فيه ورود مخفية كنت أطوف فيه ذات يومٍ وأستنشق الروائح العطرة التي تعبق منه، لكن…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-shafak/which-is-how-i-think-of-faith-like-a-hidden-rose-garden-where-i-once/)

[Elif Shafak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-shafak/)

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> [“I looked at him. Then I turned my face away. Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-templeton/i-looked-at-him-then-i-turned-my-face-away-beyond-my-upset-i-was/)

[Edith Templeton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-templeton/)

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> [Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/nothing-is-wrong-with-you-you-re-not-different-everybody-feels-as-bad/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

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> [I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/i-went-on-to-discover-that-in-its-deepest-sense-the-will-is-not/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

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> [“The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-boully/the-experience-of-time-translates-itself-into-language-and-language/)

[Jenny Boully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-boully/)

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> [“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walker-percy/comes-again-the-longing-the-desire-that-has-no-name-is-it-for-mrs/)

[Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walker-percy/)

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> [I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/libba-bray/i-have-done-what-they-expected-of-me-i-have-curtsied-for-my-queen-and/)

[Libba Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/libba-bray/)

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> [Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-kazin/walking-i-am-unbound-and-find-that-precious-unity-of-life-and/)

[Alfred Kazin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-kazin/)

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> [...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/meg-learned-to-love-her-husband-better-for-his-poverty-because-it/)

[Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louisa-may-alcott/)

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> [Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/glen-hirshberg-s-stories-are-haunting-absolutely-but-not-only-because/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

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> [You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-christopher/you-said-you-knew-the-perfect-place-to-run-to-a-place-that-was-empty/)

[Lucy Christopher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-christopher/)

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> [On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/on-the-other-hand-whatever-condition-we-are-in-we-must-always-do-what/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

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> [“Janus found himself drawn to the edge of the rink, staring fixedly at Candace as she approached: grinning, puffing steam, her cheeks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-lester/janus-found-himself-drawn-to-the-edge-of-the-rink-staring-fixedly-at/)

[Chris Lester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-lester/)

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> [I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-corbijn/i-ve-done-an-incredible-amount-of-painters-it-s-an-area-for-me-where/)

[Anton Corbijn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-corbijn/)

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> [When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-hay/when-there-s-a-strong-desire-within-you-to-express-or-create/)

[Louise Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-hay/)

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> [“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kurvitz/there-is-nothing-only-warm-primordial-blackness-your-conscience/)

[Robert Kurvitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kurvitz/)

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> [“Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair chill with disuse, where the croaking toad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/turn-from-that-road-s-beguiling-ease-return-to-your-hunger-s-turret/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

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> [So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/so-much-wanting-and-longing-clutching-desiring-passion-and-hatred-and/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

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> [Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/spiritual-fulfillment-doesn-t-have-to-mean-belief-in-a-religion-or/)

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

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> [Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stasi-eldredge/beauty-is-transcendent-it-is-our-most-immediate-experience-of-the/)

[Stasi Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stasi-eldredge/)

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> [The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-books-or-the-music-in-which-we-thought-the-beauty-was-located/)

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

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> [“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/and-from-that-moment-i-watched-her-watched-her-with-different/)

[Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/)

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> [Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/everything-that-the-human-race-has-done-and-thought-is-concerned-with/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/because-i-have-become-such-a-solitary-and-not-in-the-aristotelian/)

[Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/)

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> [“That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-hale/that-year-when-the-trees-burned-the-fire-of-late-summer-into-their/)

[Shannon Hale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-hale/)

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> [“Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-salaiz/longing-whether-for-a-passion-or-person-is-one-of-the-most-powerful/)

[jennifer salaiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-salaiz/)

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                        "text": "I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it. I can fill your every longing , heal your every wound, right your every wrong. You have enemies? Not with me at your side. You have hunger? I will find the most succulent, ripe morsel and feed you with my bare hands. You have pain? I will ease it. Bad dreams? I will chase them asunder. Regrets? I will go back and undo them. Command me, Beauty, and I am yours. -Adam Black",
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                        "text": "History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.",
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                        "text": "From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.",
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                        "text": "“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”",
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                        "text": "If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?",
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                        "text": "I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.",
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                        "text": "No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.",
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                        "text": "“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in the soil. These words make her wistful; they overwhelm her with longing. Not for her orchard, nor the bell in her church, nor the swallows that nest in the eaves of her house. For something else altogether, something she would have forgotten completely. She wonders: Why should these words pierce me, if they are not the remains of a currency I once knew how to spend?”",
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                            "name": "Sarah Shun-lien Bynum"
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                        "text": "This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.",
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                        "text": "Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him . . . by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.",
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                        "text": "Every time I talk about memories between us, I feel myself light up and feel the big smile forming, the one you always left on my face. Then I realize those are the past, and now's the future without you to share unforgettable memories with like I used to.",
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                        "text": "“You do see me crossing the meadow stiff and dead from the mist? I long for that home, that home I've never had, and without any hope that I'll ever be able to reach it. For such a home, never touched, I carry that longing that will never die, like that meadow dies stiff and dead from the mist. You do see me crossing it, full of dread?”",
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                        "text": "“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who had bent over just slightly to examine a raging battle that was long over. Alessandro imagined that Bindo Altovini was saying, half with longing, half with delight, \"These are the things in which I was so helplessly caught up, the waves that took me, what I loved. When light filled my eyes and I was restless and could move, I knew not what all the color was about, but only that I had a passion to see. And now that I am still, I pass on to you my liveliness and my life, for you will be taken, as once I was, and although you must fight beyond your capacity to fight and feel beyond your capacity to feel, remember that it ends in perfect peace, and you will be as still and content as am I, for whom centuries are not even seconds.\" In the eyes of Bindo Altoviti, Alessandro saw wisdom and amusement, and he knew why the subjects of paintings and photographs seemed to look from the past as if with clairvoyance. Even brutal and impatient men, when frozen in time, assumed expressions of extraordinary compassion, as if they had reflected the essence of their redemption back into the photograph. In a sense they were still living. ”",
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                        "text": "“إنني أعتبر الإيمان بهذه الطريقة، مثل البستان فيه ورود مخفية كنت أطوف فيه ذات يومٍ وأستنشق الروائح العطرة التي تعبق منه، لكن لم يعد بإمكاني أن أدخله. أريد أن يعود الله صديقًا لي كما كان ذات مرة، وبهذا الشوق أدور حول تلك الحديقة أبحث عن مدخل لعلي أجد بوابة تمكنني من الدخول. Which is how I think of faith—like a hidden rose garden where I once roamed and inhaled its perfumed smells but can no longer enter. I want God to be my friend again. With that longing I am circling that garden, searching for an entrance, hoping to find a gate that will let me in.”",
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                        "text": "“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a party, for youth, for the good times, for dear good drinking and fighting comrades, for football-game girls in the fall with faces like flowers? Comes the longing and it has to do with being fifteen and fifty and with the winter sun striking down into a brick-yard and on clapboard walls rounded off with old hard blistered paint and across a doorsill onto linoleum. Desire has a smell: of cold linoleum and gas heat and the sour piebald bark of crepe myrtle. A good-humored thirty-five-year-old lady takes the air in a back lot in a small town.”",
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                        "text": "I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.",
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                        "text": "Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.",
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                        "text": "...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.",
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                        "text": "Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.",
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                        "text": "“Janus found himself drawn to the edge of the rink, staring fixedly at Candace as she approached: grinning, puffing steam, her cheeks flushed, her brown hair peeking out from under a knitted cap, her hazel eyes sparkling green and gold in the bright winter sun. She wore a wool riding coat, brilliant red trimmed with black, which stood out amid the ice like a ruby on white gold. Janus thought she had never looked more beautiful than she did in that moment, with all her cares and duties laid aside for the pure joy of living. Janus wanted to freeze the moment in his memory and carry it forever: This is what happiness looks like. I never knew. ”",
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                        "text": "When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is your calling- and no matter what it is, if you go with it, you'll be guided, guarded, and assured of success. When a purpose or path is laid before you, you have the choice to just trust and let it flow, or remain stuck in fear. Trusting the perfection that resides within you is the key...",
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