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Desire Quote by Ed Helms

“So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.” quote by Ed Helms — Download Open image

“So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.”

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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