#passions

A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it is not the passion,...

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Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

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Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

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In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline

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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

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