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> [“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/moon-that-against-the-lintel-of-the-west-your-forehead-lean-until-the/)

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

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> [“The feeling a child has for a missing parent or a parent has for a missing child is so strong, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-foster/the-feeling-a-child-has-for-a-missing-parent-or-a-parent-has-for-a/)

[Mike Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-foster/)

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> [Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-joshua-heschel/faith-is-not-the-clinging-to-a-shrine-but-an-endless-pilgrimage-of/)

[Abraham Joshua Heschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-joshua-heschel/)

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> [“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/music-was-a-chain-forged-half-of-silences-and-half-of-sound-love-was/)

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

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

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

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> [“She was the one. If I’d ever had a doubt, I didn’t now. She was the one I’d be thinking about, longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-k-lilley/she-was-the-one-if-i-d-ever-had-a-doubt-i-didn-t-now-she-was-the-one/)

[R.K. Lilley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-k-lilley/)

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> [“I have a longing other than longing. other than what fills the chests of the years. Things approach it as if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adonis/i-have-a-longing-other-than-longing-other-than-what-fills-the-chests/)

[Adonis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adonis/)

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> [The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/the-tamer-my-love-the-farther-away-it-is-from-love-in-fierceness-in/)

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

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> [The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/the-longing-for-initiation-is-universal-and-for-modern-youth-it-is-a/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adriana-trigiani/a-library-is-a-home-filled-with-our-stories-on-every-shelf-we-see/)

[Adriana Trigiani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adriana-trigiani/)

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> [It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/it-seems-to-me-that-the-desire-to-make-art-produces-an-ongoing/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

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> [“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/he-had-known-in-times-of-the-greatest-misery-or-danger-that-his/)

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

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> [I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-of-lerins/i-cannot-sufficiently-be-astonished-that-such-is-the-insanity-of-some/)

[Vincent of Lerins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-of-lerins/)

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> [“I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/i-am-burning-i-have-to-live-i-have-to-sing-i-want-to-transform-myself/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

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> [I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ann-shaffer/i-am-in-a-constant-state-of-surprise-these-days-actually-now-that-i/)

[Mary Ann Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ann-shaffer/)

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> [“Kaz snagged her wrist. "Inej." His gloved thumb moved over her pulse, traced the top of the feather tattoo. "If we don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-bardugo/kaz-snagged-her-wrist-inej-his-gloved-thumb-moved-over-her-pulse/)

[Leigh Bardugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-bardugo/)

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> [It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysa-terkeurst/it-is-good-for-god-s-people-to-be-put-in-a-place-of-longing-so-they/)

[Lysa TerKeurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysa-terkeurst/)

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> [Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bly/vertical-attention-is-not-the-same-as-and-doesn-t-evolve-from-nor/)

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

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> [Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/look-it-s-a-monster-he-s-walking-alone-look-he-s-pulling-something/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [“-You know how to call me although such a noise now would only confuse the air Neither of us can forget the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/you-know-how-to-call-me-although-such-a-noise-now-would-only-confuse/)

[Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-cohen/)

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> [ “What a deep \[trust\] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/what-a-deep-trust-in-the-rationality-of-the-structure-of-the-world/)

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

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> [“Love is a fire that burns unseen, A wound that aches yet isn't felt, An always discontent contentment, A pain that rages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lu-s-vaz-de-cam-es/love-is-a-fire-that-burns-unseen-a-wound-that-aches-yet-isn-t-felt-an/)

[Luís Vaz de Camões](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lu-s-vaz-de-cam-es/)

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> [There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark¦ their place in your heart is tender; a bruise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-zarr/there-are-certain-people-who-come-into-your-life-and-leave-a-mark/)

[Sara Zarr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-zarr/)

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> [“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-g-taylor/however-i-must-admit-that-keeping-myself-to-myself-has-not-always/)

[Lawrence G. Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-g-taylor/)

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> [While you laughed all day, I'd cry all night. While you regretted nothing, I looked back at everything. While you forgot everything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/destiny-n/while-you-laughed-all-day-i-d-cry-all-night-while-you-regretted/)

[Destiny N](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/destiny-n/)

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> [“The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vicki-covington/the-longing-for-a-man-as-you-know-is-a-grand-escape-it-can-arch-your/)

[Vicki Covington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vicki-covington/)

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> [Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/once-the-soul-awakens-the-search-begins-and-you-can-never-go-back/)

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

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> [“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/there-was-silence-between-them-for-moment-and-she-wondered-if-all/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

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> [“Greed presents itself as the longing for both the material and the nonmaterial, especially wanting more than is needed. However, whatever you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-hanson-lasater/greed-presents-itself-as-the-longing-for-both-the-material-and-the/)

[Judith Hanson Lasater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-hanson-lasater/)

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> [Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/playing-live-is-so-weird-because-i-go-out-there-and-i-try-so-hard-to/)

[How to Dress Well](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/how-to-dress-well/)

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> [“Someone once asked me if I’ve ever been in love. .. I wasn’t sure how to answer her. Out of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-michael-rice/someone-once-asked-me-if-i-ve-ever-been-in-love-i-wasn-t-sure-how-to/)

[James Michael Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-michael-rice/)

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> [I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-wolcott/i-root-for-hurricanes-when-courtesy-of-the-weather-channel-i-see-one/)

[James Wolcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-wolcott/)

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> [Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-maritain/every-work-of-art-reaches-man-in-his-inner-powers-it-reaches-him-more/)

[Jacques Maritain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-maritain/)

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> [“In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you. But in some of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlil-gibran/in-your-longing-for-your-giant-self-lies-your-goodness-and-that/)

[Kahlil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kahlil-gibran/)

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> [“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence-2/you-re-always-begging-things-to-love-you-as-if-you-were-a-beggar-for/)

[D.H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence-2/)

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> [“And then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-chicago/and-then-all-that-has-divided-us-will-merge-and-then-compassion-will/)

[Judy Chicago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-chicago/)

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> [Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/two-deep-human-desires-were-at-war-the-longing-for-stability-for-form/)

[Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/)

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> [The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wells/the-god-who-is-worthy-to-be-known-and-served-for-who-he-is-is-himself/)

[Tom Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wells/)

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> [“It is along the strands of the world that the privilege of possessing children is most blatantly seen. What torment for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/it-is-along-the-strands-of-the-world-that-the-privilege-of-possessing/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

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> [“If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-wolfe/if-thecla-had-symbolized-love-of-which-i-felt-myself-undeserving-as-i/)

[Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-wolfe/)

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                        "text": "“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and be at rest, Being worn with faring and no longer young, Do you recall at all the Carian hill Where worn with loving, loving late you lay, Halting the sun because you lingered still, While wondering candles lit the Carian day? Ah, if indeed this memory to your mind Recall some sweet employment, pity me, That even now the dawn's dim herald see! I charge you, goddess, in the name of one You loved as well: endure, hold off the sun.”",
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                        "text": "“The feeling a child has for a missing parent or a parent has for a missing child is so strong, it is like a visceral pain coming from deep inside. A nagging, aching pain that hurts without relief, like a cancer growing in your belly that gnaws at you all the time, day and night. One that you would cut out if you could get to it. And even though your body is starving, you cannot eat. And, regardless of how tired you are, you cannot sleep. The kind of consuming and unrelenting longing and mental anguish that causes even the strongest of men to fall to their knees and cry out to heaven for relief.”",
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                        "text": "Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.",
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                        "text": "“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.”",
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                        "text": "“I AM RESTLESS AM restless. I am athirst for far-away 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. I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land. Thy breath comes to me whispering an impossible hope. Thy tongue is known to my heart as its very own. O Far-to-seek, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I know not the way, that I have not the winged horse. I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart. In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky! O Farthest end, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that the gates are shut everywhere in the house where I dwell alone!”",
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                        "text": "“She was the one. If I’d ever had a doubt, I didn’t now. She was the one I’d be thinking about, longing for, until I took my last breath. If I lost her tomorrow, I’d pine for her like a lovesick fool. This was the kind of love that only hit you once in your life.”",
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                        "text": "“I have a longing other than longing. other than what fills the chests of the years. Things approach it as if they know no other destination. They say: Without it we would not have become. As if it is greater than itself, this longing rises, extends, and is never satisfied. It wishes to release itself from itself and to fasten sky to earth.”",
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                        "text": "The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.",
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                        "text": "The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.",
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                        "text": "A library is a home filled with our stories.  On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.",
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                        "text": "It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.",
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                        "text": "“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through.”",
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                        "text": "I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!",
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                        "text": "“I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their life with me onto the stage where it's so bright and so dark at the same time, just knowing there are three thousand people out there longing to be swept away by the passion that's about to flood out from scarlet curtains, to this I consecrate my body and my soul, I can give no more than all of myself, I feel my heart is a throbbing engine and my voice is the valve, like a wailing train, it has to sing or blow up, there's too much fuel, too much fire, and what am I to do with this voice if I can't let it out, it's not just singing. I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me. I am in love. But not with a person. I am passionately in love with my life.”",
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                        "text": "I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it",
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                        "text": "“Kaz snagged her wrist. \"Inej.\" His gloved thumb moved over her pulse, traced the top of the feather tattoo. \"If we don't make it out, I want you to know...\" She waited. She felt hope rustling its wings inside her, ready to take flight at the right words from Kaz. She willed that hope in to stillness. Those words would never come. The heart is an arrow. She reached up and touched his cheek. She thought he might flinch again, even knock her hand away. In nearly two years of battling side by side with Kaz, of late-night scheming, impossible heists, clandestine errands, and harried meals of fried potatoes and hutspot gobbled down as they rushed from one place to another, this was the first time she had touched him skin to skin, without the barrier of gloves or coat or shirtsleeve. She let her hand cup his cheek. His skin was cool and damp from the rain. He stayed still, but she saw a tremor pass through him, as if he were waging a war with himself. \"If we don't die this night, I will die unafraid, Kaz. Can you say the same?\" His eyes were nearly black, the pupils dilated. She could see it took every last bit of his terrible will for him to remain still beneath her touch. And yet, he did not pull away. She knew it was the best he could offer. It was not enough. She dropped her hand. He took a deep breath. Kaz had said he didn't want her prayers and she wouldn't speak them, but she wished him safe nonetheless. She had her aim now, her heart had direction, and though it hurt to know that path led away from him, she could endure it.”",
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                        "text": "Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'",
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                        "text": "Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.",
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                        "text": "“-You know how to call me although such a noise now would only confuse the air Neither of us can forget the steps we danced the words you stretched to call me out of dust Yes I long for you not just as a leaf for weather or vase for hands but with a narrow human longing that makes a man refuse any fields but his own I wait for you at an unexpected place in your journey like the rusted key or the feather you do not pick up.- -I WILL NEVER FIND THE FACES FOR ALL GOODBYES I'VE MADE.- For Anyone Dressed in Marble The miracle we all are waiting for is waiting till the Parthenon falls down and House of Birthdays is a house no more and fathers are unpoisoned by renown. The medals and the records of abuse can't help us on our pilgrimage to lust, but like whips certain perverts never use, compel our flesh in paralysing trust. I see an orphan, lawless and serene, standing in a corner of the sky, body something like bodies that have been, but not the scar of naming in his eye. Bred close to the ovens, he's burnt inside. Light, wind, cold, dark -- they use him like a bride. I Had It for a Moment I had it for a moment I knew why I must thank you I saw powerful governing men in black suits I saw them undressed in the arms of young mistresses the men more naked than the naked women the men crying quietly No that is not it I'm losing why I must thank you which means I'm left with pure longing How old are you Do you like your thighs I had it for a moment I had a reason for letting the picture of your mouth destroy my conversation Something on the radio the end of a Mexican song I saw the musicians getting paid they are not even surprised they knew it was only a job Now I've lost it completely A lot of people think you are beautiful How do I feel about that I have no feeling about that I had a wonderful reason for not merely courting you It was tied up with the newspapers I saw secret arrangements in high offices I saw men who loved their worldliness even though they had looked through big electric telescopes they still thought their worldliness was serious not just a hobby a taste a harmless affectation they thought the cosmos listened I was suddenly fearful one of their obscure regulations could separate us I was ready to beg for mercy Now I'm getting into humiliation I've lost why I began this I wanted to talk about your eyes I know nothing about your eyes and you've noticed how little I know I want you somewhere safe far from high offices I'll study you later So many people want to cry quietly beside you”",
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                        "text": "“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”",
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                        "text": "“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and loneliness, longing to become healthy again; of going out and facing a world of injustices, of misery, of widespread indifference.”",
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                        "text": "While you laughed all day, I'd cry all night. While you regretted nothing, I looked back at everything. While you forgot everything, I remembered everything. While you fixed other hearts, I looked at mine that was torn apart. While you spent your time enjoying your life, I spent every moment longing for you to be mine.",
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                        "text": "“The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you’re contorted to such outrageous limits – I’m speaking of passion – that nothing else matters. I wanted this. I desired diversion.”",
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                        "text": "Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.",
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                        "text": "“Greed presents itself as the longing for both the material and the nonmaterial, especially wanting more than is needed. However, whatever you stockpile - be it diamonds, big houses, fame, money, proficiency at advanced yoga poses, or less flashy things, you will inevitably encounter two certainties. First, ... all will be lost. Second, these things in and of themselves will never satisfy your cravings, which are expressions of your feelings of fear and emptiness. You see, sometimes we temporarily lose our way, becoming convinced that if we acquire this thing or that skill, we will finally become acceptable to ourselves and to the world. In our fear, we have forgotten that we are already whole.”",
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                        "text": "Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given to me, there'll be some kind of shared moment in that. So it's very affectively intense - so much longing and lack of control.",
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                        "text": "“Someone once asked me if I’ve ever been in love. .. I wasn’t sure how to answer her. Out of all the billions of people in the world, I’ve had a few mysterious encounters, a few scattered occasions where I met someone who seemed to awaken some unknown part in me. On the rare occasion, I’ve lost myself in someone. I became so consumed with her that I lost all sense of time and space. I forgot where I was, what I was, who I was, until there was only the two of us, melting together like a soul on fire, and the world around us faded into oblivion, until we were the only thing left in the entire universe. I felt my skin tingle and my heart grow so full I thought it might explode, and I could not stop thinking about her, and I saw the untapped potential of an alternate future flash before my eyes, all the myriad memories of passion and pain and searing romance all overlapping, layers upon layers, like the stars. Then the world returned and there we were again, two ordinary people full of desperate, trembling longing, with only a dim recollection of the moment we both shared. But the vision of that alternate future still lingered in my mind’s eye. In that world between worlds, I could still feel her, could practically taste her on my lips. Have I ever been in love? I’d like to think so. Because if that’s not love, then I don’t know what is.”",
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                        "text": "I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.",
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                        "text": "Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.",
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                        "text": "“In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you. But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest. And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore. But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little, “Wherefore are you slow and halting?” For the truly good ask not the naked, “Where is your garment?” nor the houseless, “What has befallen your house?”",
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                        "text": "“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them -- You don't want to love -- your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.”",
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                        "text": "“And then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind And then both men and women will be gentle And then both women and men will be strong And then no person will be subject to another's will And then all will be rich and free and varied And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many And then all will share equally in the Earth's abundance And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old And then all will nourish the young And then all will cherish life's creatures And then all will live in harmony with each other and the Earth And then everywhere will be called Eden once again.”",
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                        "text": "Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.",
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                        "text": "The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings. And those who know Him best are best equipped to serve Him. He is their message. If we have discovered the glory of God in the face of Christ, we must not hold back. The God of glory must be made known.",
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                        "text": "“It is along the strands of the world that the privilege of possessing children is most blatantly seen. What torment for the spinster and the childless man, to see the various sizes of little demons and angels ranged along the tide line. Like some species of migratory animal. The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.”",
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                        "text": "“If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear when I locked the door of her cell behind me? That would be like saying that the writing of this book, over which I have labored for so many watches, will vanish in a blur of vermillion when I close it for the last time and dispatch it to the eternal library maintained by the old Ultan. The great question then, that I pondered as I watched the floating island with longing eyes and chafed at my bonds and cursed the hetman in my heart, is that of determining what these symbols mean in and of themselves. We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.”",
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