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«Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst»
Author: Frederick Buechner (Author) | About: Lust | Keywords: craving, lust, salt, thirst
«Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.»
«Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.»
«Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.»
«One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.»
«Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.»
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
«I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.»
«Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.»
«Men are but children of a larger growth, our appetites as apt to change as theirs, and full as craving too, and full as vain.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: appetites, apt, craving

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