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> [They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/they-are-longing-for-a-war-with-iran-iran-is-no-more-a-harm-to-us/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/in-the-end-it-seems-to-me-that-forgiveness-may-be-the-only-realistic-2/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/as-i-was-looking-at-myself-in-the-bathroom-mirror-it-occurred-to-me/)

[Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/)

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> [It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/it-must-be-so-plato-thou-reasonest-well-else-whence-this-pleasing/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [“One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leanna-renee-hieber/one-spirit-remained-unaware-of-his-presence-staring-at-miss-parker/)

[Leanna Renee Hieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leanna-renee-hieber/)

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> [“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/don-t-you-find-it-remarkable-that-the-whole-world-can-be-involved-in/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

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> [Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-lerner/through-words-we-come-to-know-the-other-person-and-to-be-known-this/)

[Harriet Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-lerner/)

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> [Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-pietrzyk/writing-is-my-way-of-trying-to-understand-vast-things-that-probably-i/)

[Leslie Pietrzyk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-pietrzyk/)

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> [My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/my-most-earnest-of-all-pleas-to-singles-is-abandonment-of-the-self/)

[Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/)

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> [“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/perhaps-your-hunger-to-belong-is-always-active-and-intense-because/)

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

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> [I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/i-am-restless-i-am-athirst-for-faraway-things-my-soul-goes-out-in-a/)

[Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/)

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> [“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lama-surya-das/partings-make-us-sad-they-make-us-feel-as-though-we-are-being-beaten/)

[Lama Surya Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lama-surya-das/)

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> [“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/did-i-want-to-be-like-him-did-i-want-to-be-him-or-did-i-just-want-to-2/)

[André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/)

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> [I think that if life separates us and we end up in totally different places, I will always remember when our paths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-think-that-if-life-separates-us-and-we-end-up-in-totally-different/)

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

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> [The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-williams/the-way-i-miss-my-daughter-esme-is-to-worry-about-her-it-is-not-a/)

[Olivia Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-williams/)

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> [“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning toward the distant. Longing is the spring’s thirst for the jar-carrying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahmoud-darwish/longing-is-the-absent-chatting-with-the-absent-the-distant-turning/)

[Mahmoud Darwish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahmoud-darwish/)

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> [It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anoushka-shankar/it-is-that-kind-of-space-that-little-space-of-longing-whether-it-is/)

[Anoushka Shankar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anoushka-shankar/)

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> [I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-archuleta/i-really-wanna-do-a-spanish-album-i-have-that-latin-culture/)

[David Archuleta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-archuleta/)

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> [For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-david-roberts/for-this-is-what-we-do-put-one-foot-forward-and-then-the-other-lift/)

[Gregory David Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-david-roberts/)

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> [“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stone/the-campus-an-academy-of-trees-under-which-some-hand-the-wind-s-i/)

[Ruth Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stone/)

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> [High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion-2/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-b-eyring/the-feeling-of-longing-for-home-is-born-into-us-that-wonderful-dream/)

[Henry B. Eyring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-b-eyring/)

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> [“He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-robinson/he-was-what-the-egotistical-part-of-me-had-always-longed-for-danger/)

[Lucy Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-robinson/)

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> [An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/an-outsider-longing-to-be-on-the-inside-is-the-same-as-the-soloist/)

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

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> [I miss all the little things. Like him driving with his hand resting on my knee and the way wed share a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-miss-all-the-little-things-like-him-driving-with-his-hand-resting/)

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

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> [“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-fforde/all-of-everything-came-into-existence-simply-because-it-wanted-to-be/)

[Jasper Fforde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-fforde/)

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> [You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-think-i-love-flattery-says-dr-johnson-and-so-i-do-but-a-little/)

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

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> [Have you ever been in love? Isn't it awful? The constant insecurity of not being good enough. The worries of how others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie/have-you-ever-been-in-love-isn-t-it-awful-the-constant-insecurity-of/)

[Leslie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie/)

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> [“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-was-suffering-and-incapacity-that-created-all-afterworlds-this-and/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/that-they-were-torn-from-mistakes-they-had-no-chance-to-fix/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

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> [“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/alas-for-our-foolish-human-nature-its-fond-mistakes-are-persistent/)

[Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/)

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> [“It's the what if? The what then? And we know that if we go for it, if we risk it, we immediately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danny-wallace/it-s-the-what-if-the-what-then-and-we-know-that-if-we-go-for-it-if-we/)

[Danny Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danny-wallace/)

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> [“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/vronsky-meanwhile-in-spite-of-the-complete-fulfilment-of-what-he-had/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornell-woolrich/one-of-the-two-owners-the-man-who-had-been-sitting-in-the-front-room/)

[Cornell Woolrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornell-woolrich/)

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> [I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-hughes/i-d-rather-do-something-than-read-about-it-that-s-fine-but-if-you-do/)

[Dean Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-hughes/)

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> [And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-carmichael/and-shall-i-pray-thee-change-thy-will-my-father-until-it-be-according/)

[Amy Carmichael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-carmichael/)

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> [I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/federico-garc-a-lorca/i-sing-your-restless-longing-for-the-statue-your-fear-of-the-feelings/)

[Federico Garcia Lorca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/federico-garc-a-lorca/)

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

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

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> [“It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleister-crowley/it-seemed-to-her-as-if-her-body-were-altogether-too-heavy-for-her-she/)

[Aleister Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleister-crowley/)

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> [“She closed her eyes, soaking in the feel of his hand, then opened them and stared at his perfect face as longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cindi-madsen/she-closed-her-eyes-soaking-in-the-feel-of-his-hand-then-opened-them/)

[Cindi Madsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cindi-madsen/)

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                        "text": "They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?",
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                        "text": "“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy. We humans come into this world—as Aristophanes so beautifully explained—feeling as though we have been sawed in half, desperate to find somebody who will recognize us and repair us. (Or re-pair us.) Desire is the severed umbilicus that is always with us, always bleeding and wanting and longing for flawless union.”",
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                        "text": "“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips out of my mind. But by now I'd realised I'd not even be kissing myself; I'd be kissing the mirror.”",
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                        "text": "It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!",
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                        "text": "“One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay. The spirit, a hollow-eyed girl with ringlets and clothing from long past, reached toward Percy, wishing to touch her. Alexi understood. When left to her own devices, Miss Parker was neither shy nor awkward; she was radiant.”",
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                        "text": "“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while the flowers and the bees and the seasons keep on doing what they must, wise but never weary in their wait for humanity to come to its senses and remember the beauty of life? It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?”",
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                        "text": "Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.",
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                        "text": "Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.",
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                        "text": "My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened.”",
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                        "text": "I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.",
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                        "text": "“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel desperate and without real connections or roots. When we are torn away from those we love, we suffer from intense feelings of longing and loneliness.”",
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                        "text": "“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or are \"being\" and \"having\" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being that someone we're longing to touch are one and the same, just opposite banks on a river that passes from us to them, back to us and over to them again in this perpetual circuit where the chambers of the heart, like the trapdoors of desire, and the wormholes of time, and the false-bottomed drawer we call identity share a beguiling logic according to which the shortest distance between real life and the life unlived, between who we are and what we want, is a twisted staircase designes with the impish creulty of M.C. Escher.”",
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                        "text": "I think that if life separates us and we end up in totally different places, I will always remember when our paths aligned for this period of time and I'll be thankful for that, and I hope that wherever you are, you'll be thankful, too. And that's the best we could wish for.",
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                        "text": "The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.",
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                        "text": "I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during 'Idol.' I'd like to give back with something like that.",
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                        "text": "For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.",
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                        "text": "“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of spring beauties, petals stained with pink veins; secret, blooming for themselves. We sat among them. Your long fingers, thin body, and long bones of improbable genius; some scattered gene as Kafka must have had. Your deep voice, this passing dust of miracles. That simple that was myself, half conscious, as though each moment was a page where words appeared; the bent hammer of the type struck against the moving ribbon. The light air, the restless leaves; the ripple of time warped by our longing. There, as if we were painted by some unknown impressionist.”",
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                        "text": "High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.",
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                        "text": "The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.",
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                        "text": "“He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.”",
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                        "text": "An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.",
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                        "text": "I miss all the little things. Like him driving with his hand resting on my knee and the way wed share a big gooey ice cream. But I especially miss the hot nights in those motel rooms when he was all around me, the taste, and the scent and the feel of him. And Id fall asleep in his arms, with the sound of his heartbeat being the last thing I heard before going to sleep. I ache with longing.",
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                        "text": "“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.”",
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                        "text": "You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.",
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                        "text": "Have you ever been in love? Isn't it awful? The constant insecurity of not being good enough. The worries of how others will think of you. The longing your heart has to put up with. The heavy weight on your shoulders. The fact that you think it's so right. Sadly, I don't hate. Unfortunately, I love every minute of it.",
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                        "text": "“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”",
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                        "text": "“That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail without love. The regret of having spoken, of having run out of time to speak. Of hoarding oneself. Of turning one’s back too often in favour of sleep. I tried to imagine their physical needs, the indignity of human needs grown so extreme they equal your longing for wife, child, sister, parent, friend. But truthfully I couldn’t even begin to imagine the trauma of their hearts, of being taken in the middle of their lives. Those with young children. Or those newly in love, wrenched from that state of grace. Or those who had lived invisibly, who were never know.”",
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                        "text": "“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their own sway. The surest proofs meanwhile are disbelieved. False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”",
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                        "text": "“It's the what if? The what then? And we know that if we go for it, if we risk it, we immediately stand to lose it. But weirdly, some part of us believes the feeling is two-way, because it must be; it's too special not to be. We believe that something's been shared, even if the evidence we have is ... what? A look that lasted a breath longer then we're used to? A second glance, when the glance could easily have been to check whether there are any cabs coming, or whether the jacket we're wearing that's caught their eyes would look good on their boyfriend, or why it is we seem to be staring at them. I saw you. You don't use overhead handles on the train. Hoped it would jolt and you would fall to me. But no. I smiled. These small moments, never said out loud, as formed and perfect as sweet little haikus, romance and longing carved out in the dust of a grubby city.”",
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                        "text": "“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. When first he united his life with hers and donned civilian clothes, he felt the delight of freedom in general, such as he had not before known, and also the freedom of love—he was contented then, but not for long. Soon he felt rising in his soul a desire for desires—boredom. Involuntarily he began to snatch at every passing caprice, mistaking it for a desire and a purpose.”",
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                        "text": "“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes pointed at the ceiling, one hand backed defensively against his eyes to ward off the light. He'd taken off his vest and shoes, and that strap that wasn't straight enough to be a suspender-strap was dangling now around one of the knobs at the foot of the bed. It ended in a holster, with a black, cross-grained slab of metal protruding from it. Turner couldn't take his eyes off it, while the long seconds that to him were minutes toiled by. That meant out, that black slab, more surely than any door. He had to have it. More than that, it meant a continuance of out, for so long as he had it. And he wanted out with all the desperate longing of all trapped things, blindly scratching, clawing their way through a maze to the open. To the open where the equal chance is.”",
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                        "text": "I'd rather do something than read about it.\" \"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*.\" -pg 138-9",
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                        "text": "And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing, I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire— See in my quiet places, wishes thronging— Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.",
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                        "text": "I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.",
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                        "text": "... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.",
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                        "text": "“It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to opium- smokers, which they call \"clou'e 'a terre.\" It is as if the body clung desperately to the earth, by its own weight, and yet in the same way as a tired child nestles to its mother's breast. In this sensation there is a perfect lassitude mingled with a perfect longing. It may be that it is the counterpart of the freedom of the soul of which it is the herald and companion.”",
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                        "text": "“She closed her eyes, soaking in the feel of his hand, then opened them and stared at his perfect face as longing wrapped itself around her heart. \"If this is a mistake, it's one I'll gladly keep making.\" \"I don't think it's a mistake, I just want to do things the right way.\" \"Not everything's always black and white. And you don't always have to put what you want on hold for everyone else.”",
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