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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 oω l'on catche," (1957).)
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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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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 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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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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The passion for money is never fickle.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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