"A pure love is a selfless love, but……" — John Dufresne
"A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?"
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John Dufresne
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14 Quotes by John Dufresne
John Dufresne has 14 quotes on this site.
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Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
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The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is…
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Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
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We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories…
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A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
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Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our…
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You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only…
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You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance…
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You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing…
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I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is…
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Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
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Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.
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More Desire Quotes
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one of 7,210 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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