Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
– Frederick Buechner
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- Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
- If you have never known the power of God’s love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it – I mean really asked, expecting an answer. – Frederick Buechner
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- To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. – Frederick Buechner
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- Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. – Paramahansa Yogananda
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- For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo
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- I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me. – Jannat Bhat
- I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. – Sonya Hartnett
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy
- Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad. – Clarice Lispector
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- Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. – Tsugumi Ohba