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Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.
– Kim Stanley Robinson

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  10. It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. – Kim Stanley Robinson
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  24. Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself. – Elizabeth Hoyt
  25. Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel – happily or unhappily – on the path of life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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  39. Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering ????ons itself to the pang of wanting. – Kilroy J Oldster
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