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Passion

«Vices are often habits rather than passions»
Author: Antoine Rivarol | About: Passion, Vice
«We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.»
Author: Che Guavara | About: Death, Life, Passion
«What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.»
Author: Derrick Jensen | About: Fear, Passion
«We are minor in everything but our passions»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | About: Passion | Keywords: minor, minors, passions
«We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art»
Author: Henry James | About: Art, Passion | Keywords: In The Dark, The Madness, work in
«We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.»
«To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.»
Author: Walter H. Pater | About: Passion, Success | Keywords: ecstasy, gem
«To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude»
«To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.»
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»