To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN

Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it ha...
ILAN STAVANS I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of an...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do s...
SYLVIA EARLE You can burn down all the plants and crops on my land, but you cannot keep an outpouring of rain fro...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
KARL POPPER Our desire is to generate the greatest debate possible with regard to this situation, so that all th...
ALBERTO FERNANDEZ Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against e...
CATHERINE MARSHALL The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and lov...
HAROLD NORSE

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information
SUNDAY ADELAJA Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
JOSHUA KAI

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN We avoid it because we don't talk about it. We just go game to game and keep ourselves enthralled wi...
JACK KEEFER

How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about oursel...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Coach had been talking all week about how we had to keep them off the glass and put a body on them. ...
CRAIG BROOKS

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves
PROVERB

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did la...
PABLO SCHREIBER

The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
LORD BYRON

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We want to keep doing what we're doing and keep improving it. We're here to bring as much variety an...
DANA ROBERTS

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
C.S. LEWIS Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being ...
JELLIS VAES

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The beauty of life is to experience ourselves with patience & self belief.Patience is ability to kee...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we ...
FRANKI The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desi...
ANUJ SOMANY Any idiot can write a long book. All it takes is patience and a willingness to keep pounding on the ...
JASON SHEEHAN

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE

The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.
UNKNOWN Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, w...
ANDREW KENDALL One of the greatest parts about this trip was that we didn't put any pressure on ourselves. No one p...
JIM LARRANAGA

Instead of expecting someone from somewhere to spearhead or bring about a change that we desire, it ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
BEAU BRIDGES I'm pleased with six shutouts in seven games, and you can't complain about that. I just hope we can ...
JENNIFER HENDERSON I'm pleased with six shutouts in seven games, and you can't complain about that, ... I just hope we ...
JENNIFER HENDERSON It will bring focus down to the lake and allow patrons to learn about their greatest resource ? Lake...
KAE DONLEVY

The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me...
PAUL WATSON

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR He leaned his head against the rock. Christ, when was the last time he’d seen the humor in life? A...
ANGELA QUARLES

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
DOROTHY DAY We just can't bring ourselves to throw it away.
GLENDA WHITSON If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's...
RANDY ALCORN

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves ...
C.S. LEWIS The greatest thing of all is that he's got super kids on the bench that they can bring in and they c...
EDDIE LLOYD

Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso,
From Dalí and El Greco,
From the gloomy 'View of...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguar...
RACHEL SKLAR The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can k...
DEE DEE ARTNER We were selling loose recyclables, which doesn't bring in enough money. This way we can bring in mar...
LILIA LENHART I have a theory about suburbs,” Grace mused. “...it all happens here, all the great crimes, kept...
GAVIN G. SMITH We pride ourselves on our defense. We keep our hands up and keep getting in there.
JUSTIN BERRY We sympathize with the neighbors' desire to keep it as open space, but we have a greater responsibil...
TONY WINNICKER

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature
JOSEPH ADDISON

You see things, you keep quiet about them and you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking pla...
WALSHY FIRE We are facing the second half of the season with the greatest desire to give to our fans and our fol...
EMILIO BUTRAGUENO Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we w...
ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ We're 3-0, which still doesn't mean nothing. We need to keep on pushing. If we just keep on pushing,...
CHAD JOHNSON The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track....
DANY HEATLEY

The greatest obstacles to Self-realisation are desire for property, desire for wealth and desire for...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselv...
JANE O'REILLY

We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes...
KAMAND KOJOURI

I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. The...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD One of the best things we can do for ourselves and for our detained friends is to keep doing our wor...
ALLAN SLATER

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves ...
DAN ARIELY Desire is the greatest boon and curse of the humanity.
ANANDHA

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
DOROTHY DAY At halftime we got down on ourselves but we kept talking to the kids telling them to keep their head...
JEFF HAILE

Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating oursel...
JULIE BURCHILL

Instead of focusing on problems try focusing on solutions instead. We will always..always...have pro...
AKIROQ BROST Even if you receive a lot of compliments or praise, you should know that there is still a lot to lea...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear...
HARRY CONNICK, JR.

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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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FEDERICO MOCCIA - Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?
- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy...
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with ...
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FEDERICO ESTEVEZ Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ imagination is the language of who has the power to make a change
FEDERICO MINIERI Power is a weapon used by who has already killed themselves.
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All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography
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DAVE FEDERICO It was the leadoff leg so she didn't get a running start, so it's pretty accurate.
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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, t...
FEDERICO FELLINI The real woman does not want to be equal but different.
FEDERICO MANGAHAS love what makes you different
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FEDERICO OPINION Sam took it out first as she normally does. The other girl caught her with about 50 meters to go and...
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DAVE FEDERICO Samantha's versatility is second to none. We're very lucky to have her on our team.
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GERI FEDERICO That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.
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FEDERICO POZZOLO The crater could only be done by a powerful explosive.
FEDERICO OPINION Oh, yes! That is tonight.
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LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
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FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI This is a triumph of justice!
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...
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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
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Siempre pensé que morir de amor solo era una licencia poética.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found l...
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on...
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't la...
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
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One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
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When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning
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Siempre había pensado que dejar de creer causaba una cicatriz imborrable en el lugar donde estuvo l...
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Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ...
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Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be th...
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«¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués.
«Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl...
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Ningún loco está loco si uno se conforma con sus razones.
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Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' sa...
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the...
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I live in fear of being alive.
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Ella le preguntó por esos días si era verdad, como decían las canciones, que el amor lo podía to...
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy ...
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No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe i...
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Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una depende...
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t...
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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

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