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The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.


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MAX MULLER Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, e...
MAX MULLER Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
MAX MULLER Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, withou...
MAX MULLER The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somew...
MAX MULLER Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to ...
MAX MULLER I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l...
MAX MULLER Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells...
MAX MULLER How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, w...
MAX MULLER Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over ...
MAX MULLER I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her ch...
MAX MULLER What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the ...
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