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“I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like security for making one fall asleep; I like life well enough to live it awake, and so, in the very midst of my riches, I maintain the sensation of a state of precariousness, by which means I aggravate, or at any rate intensify, my life. I will not say I like danger, but I like life to be hazardous, and I want it to demand at every moment the whole of my courage, my happiness, my health...”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
― Bruce Lee

“He wanted to brand her, to stamp his mark into her flesh for the entire world to see she was his.”
― S. M. Yair-Levy, Stolen

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche