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title: "Inspiring Longing Proverbs"
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> [“ I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/binnie-kirshenbaum/i-loved-vincent-and-he-loved-me-in-the-abiding-way-most-couples-in/)

[Binnie Kirshenbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/binnie-kirshenbaum/)

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> [“How do I describe the feeling that envelopes my being when he is near? It is like a cocoon of warmth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasmine-dubroff/how-do-i-describe-the-feeling-that-envelopes-my-being-when-he-is-near/)

[Jasmine Dubroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasmine-dubroff/)

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> [“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/sadly-as-some-old-mediaeval-knight-gazed-at-the-arms-he-could-no/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/)

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> [“Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mikael Blomkvist to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stieg-larsson-translated-from-the-swedish-by-reg-keeland/then-she-sat-as-if-paralyzed-thinking-she-had-never-in-her-life-felt/)

[Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stieg-larsson-translated-from-the-swedish-by-reg-keeland/)

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> [“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/for-with-another-part-of-his-mind-he-felt-the-encroachment-of-a/)

[Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/)

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> [“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/the-fatal-combination-of-indulgence-without-feeling-disgusts-me/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-schepisi/music-in-a-movie-might-tell-you-about-longing-it-might-tell-you-about/)

[Fred Schepisi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-schepisi/)

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> [By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-strout/by-the-time-they-were-pulling-into-the-parking-lot-of-the-a-p-the/)

[Elizabeth Strout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-strout/)

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> [...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/to-emphasize-the-afterlife-is-to-deny-life-to-concentrate-on-heaven-2/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [Everyday is hard for me the thoughts the feelings the desire and longing to it the end and when will it end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/everyday-is-hard-for-me-the-thoughts-the-feelings-the-desire-and/)

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

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> [“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/he-burned-to-appease-the-fierce-longing-of-his-heart-before-which/)

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

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> [“I knew it was too late. I knew she was dead. I knew it for sure because the pull was gone. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephenie-meyer/i-knew-it-was-too-late-i-knew-she-was-dead-i-knew-it-for-sure-because/)

[Stephenie Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephenie-meyer/)

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> [When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-with-god-his-desire-grows-beyond/)

[Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/)

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> [“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nafisa-haji/what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-the-reason-he-had-stayed-away/)

[Nafisa Haji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nafisa-haji/)

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> [“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-c-andrews/cathy-don-t-look-so-defeated-she-was-only-trying-to-put-us-down-again/)

[V.C. Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-c-andrews/)

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> [“The sun, through the filter of the trees, glints green off the cells of her suit, outlines her soft curves. I’m overcome…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-stine/the-sun-through-the-filter-of-the-trees-glints-green-off-the-cells-of/)

[Catherine Stine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-stine/)

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> [I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/i-can-negate-everything-of-that-part-of-me-that-lives-on-vague/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-powers/i-understood-being-from-a-place-where-a-few-facts-are-enough-to/)

[Kevin Powers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-powers/)

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> [All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/all-the-women-of-this-fevered-night-all-that-i-had-danced-with-all/)

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

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> [“The joy of having something comes from the length of time you have been wanting it, expecting it. Happiness really lies in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/the-joy-of-having-something-comes-from-the-length-of-time-you-have/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-friedman/i-think-no-country-is-going-to-be-immune-from-the-arab-awakening/)

[Thomas Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-friedman/)

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> [I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-jansson/i-love-borders-august-is-the-border-between-summer-and-autumn-it-is-2/)

[Tove Jansson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-jansson/)

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> [“What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/what-if-it-came-and-didn-t-let-go-a-sorrow-that-had-come-to-stay-and/)

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

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> [Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-pure-realization-of-religious-feeling-capacity-for-faith/)

[Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/)

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> [“At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-flaubert/at-other-times-at-the-edge-of-a-wood-especially-at-dusk-the-trees/)

[Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-flaubert/)

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> [Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/images-break-with-a-small-ping-their-destruction-is-as-wonderful-as/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

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> [“Jack is somewhere in this city, right now. The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-seville/jack-is-somewhere-in-this-city-right-now-the-thought-was-like-passing/)

[Jane Seville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-seville/)

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> [The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-pritchett/the-novel-creates-a-bemusing-effect-the-short-story-on-the-other-hand/)

[V. S. Pritchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-pritchett/)

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> [“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-jean-and-his-mother-left-etreuilles-monsieur-sureau-had-gathered/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [“His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together- a rocky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephenie-meyer/his-familiar-husky-voice-sent-a-wave-of-wistfulness-through-me-a/)

[Stephenie Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephenie-meyer/)

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> [She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-follett/she-looked-at-his-young-face-so-full-of-concern-and-tenderness-and/)

[Ken Follett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-follett/)

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> [“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-sonnenberg/my-mother-s-perpetual-now-tempting-me-with-possibility-weren-t-we/)

[Susanna Sonnenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-sonnenberg/)

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> [Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/many-a-young-person-tells-me-he-wants-to-be-a-writer-i-always/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

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> [Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/freedom-is-but-the-possibility-of-a-various-and-indefinite-activity/)

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

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> [To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/to-me-the-sole-hope-of-human-salvation-lies-in-teaching-man-to-regard/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/we-wish-we-could-have-been-there-for-you-we-didn-t-have-many-role/)

[David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/)

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> [“Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/deep-within-everyone-s-heart-there-always-remains-a-sense-of-longing/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

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> [Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-fern/oh-to-be-a-child-again-my-only-treasures-bits-of-shell-and-stone-and/)

[Fanny Fern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-fern/)

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> [“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/maybe-when-people-longed-for-a-thing-that-bad-the-longing-made-them/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/this-is-to-me-the-loveliest-and-saddest-landscape-in-the-world-it-is/)

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/)

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                        "text": "“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing they wanted was coming for him alone, before he was ready for it; it was a fear worse than the fear that when money was low one would have to stop drinking; it was compounded of harrowed longing and hatred, fathomless compunctions, and of a paradoxical remorse, for his failure to attempt finally something he was not going to have time for, to face the world honestly; it was the shadow of a city of dreadful night without splendour that fell on his soul.”",
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                        "text": "“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold my desires just out of reach of appetite, to keep myself honed and sharp. I want the keen edge of longing. it is so easy to be a brute and yet it has become rather fashionable. Is that the consequence of leaving your body to science? Of assuming that another pill, another drug, another car, another pocket-sized home-movie station, a DNA transfer, or the complete freedom of choice that five hundred TV channels must bring, will make everything all right? Will soothe the nagging pain in the heart that the latest laser scan refuses to diagnose? The doctor's surgery is full of men and women who do not know why they are unhappy. \"Take this\", says the Doctor, \"you'll soon feel better.\" They do not feel better, because, little by little, they cease to feel at all.”",
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                        "text": "By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.",
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                        "text": "...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.",
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                        "text": "Everyday is hard for me the thoughts the feelings the desire and longing to it the end and when will it end How will this end How can I go on like this the lack of sleep is getting worse the thinking and dreaming of dying and death that live in my head the hurting and pain never leaves me.",
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                        "text": "“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed.\" If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.”",
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                        "text": "“The sun, through the filter of the trees, glints green off the cells of her suit, outlines her soft curves. I’m overcome with visions of my father poring over his books, and the wet, verdant forest floor, and newts pausing over toxic yellow candy, and leaves flying up from the impact of Bryan’s body hitting the ground. Another, confused part of me hears my father’s voice calling the refs scum, trash, slime. With flashes of fury at Marisa, mixed with a sad, all-consuming longing that feels dangerously like love, I pluck her hands from my face and push her away. -from Fireseed One”",
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                        "text": "I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.",
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                        "text": "“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a life, causes a unique kind of shame. We'd had small lives, populated by a longing from something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams. So we'd come here, where life needed no elaboration and others would tell us who to be.”",
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                        "text": "All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.",
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                        "text": "“The joy of having something comes from the length of time you have been wanting it, expecting it. Happiness really lies in the expectation. So once you achieve it, it loses its charm for you. Every happiness is imaginary: so long as you don’t possess it, it seems to be abounding happiness. But as soon as it is actualized, it ceases to be happiness; our hands are as empty as before. And then we seek some other object for our desire, and we begin to expect it again. We feel so unhappy without it and imagine that happiness will come with it.”",
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                        "text": "I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.",
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                        "text": "I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.",
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                        "text": "“What if it came and didn’t let go, a sorrow that had come to stay, and did to me what longing for him had done on those nights when it seemed there was something so essential missing from my life that it might as well have been missing from my body, so that losing him now would be like losing a hand you could spot in every picture of yourself around the house, but without which you couldn’t possibly be you again. You lose it, as you always knew you would, and were even prepared to; but you can’t bring yourself to live with the loss. And hoping not to think of it, like praying not to dream of it, hurts just the same.”",
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                        "text": "Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.",
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                        "text": "“At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women, standing erect, with rolling eyes; she must have been a hundred feet high, but along she drifted, growing ever longer and ever thinner, and finally fell apart, each limb remaining separate, with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver”",
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                        "text": "Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.",
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                        "text": "“Jack is somewhere in this city, right now. The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the back yard. You could smell it, but it wasn't yours, and you couldn't just barge into their home and demand a burger, no matter how your mouth watered.”",
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                        "text": "The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.",
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                        "text": "Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.",
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                        "text": "To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.",
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                        "text": "We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.",
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                        "text": "“Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happiness.”",
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                        "text": "Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.",
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                        "text": "“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and disappeared. Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.”",
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