#desire

If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

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Concepts are at the root of it: greed, hatred, bewilderment depend on what is conceived as desirable, despicable or confusing.

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Vague dreams, confusing lights, perplexing landscapes—that is what remains in my soul after all my journeying. I have

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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Want little: you’ll have everything. Want nothing: you’ll be free.

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What is longing but my arms pulling at the sky as if it weren’t already fog and rain collecting the ground?

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In the end, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

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It was all a matter of a Goddess — dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable. Anthony Burgess...