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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
— Edward Abbey
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men…
— Virginia Woolf
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Live joyfully, without desire.
— Gautama Buddha
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I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even…
— Vikas Swarup
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
— John of the Cross
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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make…
— Laozi
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
— Laozi
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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
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The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he…
— Laozi
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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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