"In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth."

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Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin

Luke Davies

#Desire Quotes #Depth Quotes #Companionship Quotes

“The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.”
“I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.”
“Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.”

Source : M. J. Ryan (1999). “Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Everyday of Your Life”, p.83, Conari Press
“Its always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.”

Source : "Brazilian GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. November 21, 2013.
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.”

Source : The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)
“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”
“My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?”

Source : Song: 17, 2011
“I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.”

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