Craving Quote by Laura Riding

“Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.”

Laura Riding

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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

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Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just…

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“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it”

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The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words)…

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Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

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Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

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She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of…

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rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

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Women are strangers in the country of man.

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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge…

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When I look at you all I see is heartbreak waiting to happen. And I can't tell if it's because of love. Or loneliness. But at night when I'm all alone, I crave to have you next me.

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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and…

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Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

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I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

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When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too,…

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