Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Alice Cooper

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Zora Neale Hurston

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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Richard Paul Evans

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

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...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

Neil Gaiman

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What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Norman Vincent Peale

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

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