Madeleine de Scudery Quotes
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.
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Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
