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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
(Denis Diderot (1713-1784), French philosopher. repr. In Selected Writings, ed. Lester G. Crocker (1966). Elements of Physiology, "Will, Freedom," (notes written 1774-1780, originally published 1875-1877).)
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The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
(Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), Russian political theorist. "Die Reaktion in Deutschland," Jahrbuch fur Wissenshaft und Kunst (1842).
The phrase in Bakunin's article, "Reaction in Germany" (written under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard"), was later adopted as an anarchist slogan.....)
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
(Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German critic, philosopher. repr. In Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (1968). Unpacking My Library (1931).)
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
(Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French semiologist. Mythologies, "Le monde où l'on catche," (1957).)
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the slow passion
to that deliberate progress.
(Thom Gunn (b. 1929), Anglo-American poet. Considering the Snail (l. 17-18). . .
Collected Poems [Thom Gunn]. (1994) Faber and Faber.)
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Strange fits of passion have I known:
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. I. Strange fits of passion have I known (l. 12-14). . .
From LUCY The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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The passion for money is never fickle.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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Man is a useless passion.
(Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher, author. Being and Nothingness, "Doing and Having," sct. 3 (1943).)
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
(John Boorman (b. 1933), British filmmaker. Projections, entry for May 16, 1991, eds. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (1992).)
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden—the passion for the revealed.
(Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Russian poet. repr. in A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose, ed. and trans. by J. Marin King (1980). The House at Old Pimen, ch. 2 (1934).
On her youthful love for a girl.)
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