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title: "Short Longing Wisdom"
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> [“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/as-i-tried-to-doze-the-incident-on-the-piazzetta-lost-somewhere-amid/)

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

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> [He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/he-knew-that-all-things-human-are-transitory-and-therefore-that-it/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-berg/but-in-spite-of-my-great-desire-for-intimacy-i-ve-always-been-a-loner/)

[Elizabeth Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-berg/)

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> [“The longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure– that comes straight from God, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stasi-eldredge/the-longing-in-the-heart-of-a-woman-to-share-life-together-as-a-great/)

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

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> [“Can you imagine being royalty but being treated like a servant? Can you imagine being the daughter of the true king but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stasi-eldredge/can-you-imagine-being-royalty-but-being-treated-like-a-servant-can/)

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

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> [“You died here," I said quietly. "October -" "I wasn't here, and the girl I'm supposed to be finding was, and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seanan-mcguire/you-died-here-i-said-quietly-october-i-wasn-t-here-and-the-girl-i-m/)

[Seanan McGuire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seanan-mcguire/)

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> [“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It’s like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-caeiro/she-goes-on-with-her-beautiful-hair-and-mouth-like-before-i-go-on/)

[Alberto Caeiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-caeiro/)

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> [“...we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-arthur/we-hunger-for-other-worlds-we-long-to-go-beyond-the-streets-we-know/)

[Sarah Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-arthur/)

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> [“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/i-thought-once-how-theocritus-had-sung-of-the-sweet-years-the-dear/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [“You are entitled to feel all the bitterness and hatred you were taught. You are entitled to carry with you the pain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracie-peterson/you-are-entitled-to-feel-all-the-bitterness-and-hatred-you-were/)

[Tracie Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracie-peterson/)

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> [There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mann/there-were-profound-reasons-for-his-attachment-to-the-sea-he-loved-it/)

[Thomas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mann/)

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> [I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-have-not-lost-my-fascination-with-death-i-have-not-become-a/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

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> [nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/nostalgia-underlying-cosmological-explanation-for-weak-but-detectable/)

[Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/)

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> [There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-is-a-tremendous-desire-and-longing-for-love-but-love-needs/)

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

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> [“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-have-a-longing-for-life-and-i-go-on-living-in-spite-of-logic-though-2/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/and-now-i-lost-my-last-treasure-the-dreaming-for-nothing-in-the/)

[Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/)

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> [Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-edgarian/style-begins-with-the-people-passing-through-one-s-life-the/)

[Carol Edgarian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-edgarian/)

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> [“For Blitz, meanwhile, an almost tragic dilemma had begun. As time passed, he and Giuseppe understood each other better and better, conversing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elsa-morante/for-blitz-meanwhile-an-almost-tragic-dilemma-had-begun-as-time-passed/)

[Elsa Morante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elsa-morante/)

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> [When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-climacus/when-the-soul-betrays-itself-and-loses-the-blessed-and-longed-for/)

[John Climacus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-climacus/)

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> [Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zicheng-hong/sexual-desire-may-burn-like-fire-but-when-you-give-a-thought-to-when/)

[Zicheng Hong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zicheng-hong/)

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> [Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-akhmatova/flowers-cold-from-the-dew-and-autumn-s-approaching-breath-i-pluck-for/)

[Anna Akhmatova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-akhmatova/)

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> [Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/novels-institutionalize-the-ruse-of-eros-it-becomes-a-narrative/)

[Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/)

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> [“What does this mean, then – I’m afraid? Scared of physical intimacy? No. I crave it, I dream about it. But for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tabitha-suzuma/what-does-this-mean-then-i-m-afraid-scared-of-physical-intimacy-no-i/)

[Tabitha Suzuma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tabitha-suzuma/)

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> [She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-dunn/she-knew-that-what-she-was-going-through-was-nothing-special-just/)

[Sarah Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-dunn/)

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> [I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-wanted-to-experience-both-i-wanted-worldly-enjoyment-and-divine/)

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

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> [“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/the-flowers-that-i-left-in-the-ground-that-i-did-not-gather-for-you/)

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

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> [“Shall the water not remember Ember my hand’s slow gesture, tracing above of its mirror my half-imaginary airy portrait? My only belonging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-chappell/shall-the-water-not-remember-ember-my-hand-s-slow-gesture-tracing/)

[Fred Chappell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-chappell/)

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> [It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-liedloff/it-is-our-genetic-nature-as-a-species-to-believe-as-young-children/)

[Jean Liedloff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-liedloff/)

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> [A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/a-sudden-light-transfigures-a-trivial-thing-a-weather-vane-a-windmill/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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> [She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/she-couldn-t-read-his-expression-as-he-started-toward-her-she/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [“There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-hayes/there-were-times-when-i-would-forget-her-though-they-were-rare-and-it/)

[Alfred Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-hayes/)

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> [“yet he felt the contrast between the well-filled, well-lighted shops and the dim gloomy cellar, and it made him moody that such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gaskell/yet-he-felt-the-contrast-between-the-well-filled-well-lighted-shops/)

[Elizabeth Gaskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gaskell/)

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> [In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/in-the-short-stories-if-i-can-make-a-very-lumpy-contrast-in-the-short/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

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> [“Don't say that. I cherish every moment i've had with you. Every single one, okay? Even when we fight. Don't wish it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlen-aymes/don-t-say-that-i-cherish-every-moment-i-ve-had-with-you-every-single/)

[Kahlen Aymes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kahlen-aymes/)

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> [“But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-shelley/but-i-have-one-want-which-i-have-never-yet-been-able-to-satisfy-and/)

[Mary Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-shelley/)

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> [O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/o-thou-with-dewy-locks-who-lookest-down-thro-the-clear-windows-of-the/)

[William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/)

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> [Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-glasgow/youth-is-the-season-of-tragedy-and-despair-youth-is-the-time-when-one/)

[Ellen Glasgow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-glasgow/)

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> [It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/it-makes-utter-sense-to-stay-healthy-and-strong-to-be-as-nourishing/)

[Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/)

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> [He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/he-found-that-he-had-this-sudden-desperate-longing-for-the-fuming/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [Longing A broken heart, angry words, lies meant to harm. Longing to feel the love of days gone by instead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/longing-a-broken-heart-angry-words-lies-meant-to-harm-longing-to-feel/)

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

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                        "text": "“You died here,\" I said quietly. \"October -\" \"I wasn't here, and the girl I'm supposed to be finding was, and you died .\" I looked up at him, glaring through the tears in my eyes. I left my fingers balanced on the floor, letting his blood sing its song of pain and longing. Longing to live; refusal to let go of the world. Maybe that's what differentiates the Kings and Queens of Cats from the rest of Faerie. They have a cat's stubbornness and the power to back it up. So when death says, \"Go,\" they just refuse. My heart hurt. My heart hurt so badly, and I was still trying to recover from Connor, and oh, Titania, I couldn't do this again. The thought startled me. I froze where I was, still glaring. Tybalt sighed. \"I know.\" he hesitated before adding, \"This is not the time, and this is not the place, and my nephew needs us. But I ask you to consider this. I got better. I will always get better.\" He hesitated again - possibly the first time I'd ever seen him pause more than once after he'd decided he was going to say something. Finally, he said, \"Some of us, October, will not leave you.”",
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                        "text": "“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It’s like my head had been lowered, And if I think this, and raise my head And the golden sun dries the need to cry I can’t stop having. How vast the field and interior love... ! I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves.”",
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                        "text": "“...we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn’t incidental.”",
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                        "text": "“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young; And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightaway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,-- Guess now who holds thee?--Death, I said, But, there, The silver answer rang,--Not Death, but Love.”",
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                        "text": "“You are entitled to feel all the bitterness and hatred you were taught. You are entitled to carry with you the pain and sorrow, the longing and disappointment. They will happily accompany you through life. Claim them if you will, but remember they are greedy, and their demands are many. You must be ready to pay the price they require.' 'The price?' Nasnana sobered and nodded. 'Yes. There is always a price. Little by little these companions will steal away your joy, your peace of mind, your contentment. They will take your very heart and turn it to stone.”",
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                        "text": "There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?",
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                        "text": "I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.",
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                        "text": "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.",
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                        "text": "There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.",
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                        "text": "“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I had witnessed. Now I felt utterly poor, because I could not create a human companion. This hunger which had inhabited her entire being, which had thinned her blood, transpired through her bones, attacked the roots of her hair, given a fragility to her skin which was never to disappear entirely, had been so enormous that it had marked her whole being and her eyes with an indelible mark. Although her life changed and every want was filled later, this appearance of hunger remained. As if nothing could ever quite fill it. Her being had received no sun, no food, no air, no warmth, no love. It retained open pores of yearning and longing, mysterious spongy cells of absorption. The space between actuality, absolute deprivation, and the sumptuosity of her imagination could never be entirely covered. What she had created in the void, in the emptiness, in the bareness continued to shame all that was offered her, and her large, infinitely blue eyes continued to assert the immensity of her hunger.”",
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                        "text": "Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.",
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                        "text": "“For Blitz, meanwhile, an almost tragic dilemma had begun. As time passed, he and Giuseppe understood each other better and better, conversing and playing together on the floor with immense amusement, and so he found himself madly in love also with Giuseppe, as well as Nino. But Nino was always out, and Giuseppe always at home: thus it was impossible for him to live constantly in the company of both his loves, as he would have wished. And in consequence, with either one, he was always tortured by regret: and if he was with one, the mere mention of the others name or a smell that recalled him was enough for his homesickness to stream behind him, like a banner against the wind. At times, while he was on sentry duty outside Ninos school, suddenly, as if at a message brought him by a cloud, he would begin to sniff the sky with a mournful whimper, recalling the incarcerated Giuseppe. For a few minutes, a dissension would rend him, drawing him in two opposite directions at the same time; but finally, having overcome his hesitation, he would dash toward the San Lorenzo house, his long nose cleaving the wind like a prow. But at his destination, unfortunately, he found the door barred; and all his cries, mortified by the muzzle, passionately calling for Giuseppe, were in vain; for Giuseppe, though hearing him and suffering in his solitary room, longing to let him in, was unable to do so. Then, resigning himself to his destiny of waiting outside doors, Blitz would stretch out there on the ground, where, at times, in his boundless patience, he would doze off. And perhaps he had a dream of love, which brought him a reminiscence of Nino: it's a fact that, a moment later, he would stir from his sleep and hop down the steps with desperate whimpers, to retrace his way to the school.”",
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                        "text": "When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.",
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                        "text": "Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.",
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                        "text": "Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains.",
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                        "text": "Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.",
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                        "text": "“What does this mean, then – I’m afraid? Scared of physical intimacy? No. I crave it, I dream about it. But for me there’s no one. No one. Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don’t even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings – of love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed – yet no one to focus them on. It makes me want to scream in frustration. It makes me feel like a freak. But worse than that, I feel so desperately disappointed.”",
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                        "text": "I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.",
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                        "text": "“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to let them grow forever, not in poems or marble, but where they fell and rotted. And the ships in their great stalls, huge and transitory as heroes, ships I could not captain, today I bring them back to let them sail forever, not in model or ballad, but where they were wrecked and scuttled. And the child on whose shoulders I stand, whose longing I purged with public, kingly discipline, today I bring him back to languish forever, not in confession or biography, but where he flourished, growing sly and hairy. It is not malice that draws me away, draws me to renunciation, betrayal: it is weariness, I go for weariness of thee, Gold, ivory, flesh, love, God, blood, moon- I have become the expert of the catalogue. My body once so familiar with glory, My body has become a museum: this part remembered because of someone's mouth, this because of a hand, this of wetness, this of heat. Who owns anything he has not made? With your beauty I am as uninvolved as with horses' manes and waterfalls. This is my last catalogue. I breathe the breathless I love you, I love you - and let you move forever.”",
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                        "text": "“Shall the water not remember Ember my hand’s slow gesture, tracing above of its mirror my half-imaginary airy portrait? My only belonging longing; is my beauty, which I take ache away and then return, as love of teasing playfully the one being unbeing. whose gratitude I treasure Is your moves me. I live apart heart from myself, yet cannot not live apart. In the water’s tone, stone? that brilliant silence, a flower Hour, whispers my name with such slight light: moment, it seems filament of air, fare the world becomes cloudswell. well. ”",
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                        "text": "O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.",
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                        "text": "Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.",
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