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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Giving, Village Idiots, Literature

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.

  Sarah Camp

  Believe, Fall, Ifs

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Romance, Humanity

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• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fire, Excess, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

  Blaise Pascal

  Business, Men, Care

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• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  Alexander Pope

  Strength, Time, Stronger

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Voice, Stronger

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• Live with passion!

  Tony Robbins

  Live With Passion

  Interview with Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

  Anita Roddick

  Communicate

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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  My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

  Bette Davis

  Work, Hands, Together

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Existentialism, Myth Of Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Hurt, Mean

  "Bob Dylan Dropped Some Serious Wisdom on 35 Million AARP Members" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

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• You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

  Victoria Abril

  Fake People, Real, Moving

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• Passion goes, Boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Boredom, Remains

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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Peace, Attitude, Creativity

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

  Robert Sternberg

  Love, Work, Commitment

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• Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

  Joss Whedon

  Life, Hurt, Peace

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Men

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• Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

  Robert Lowth

  Way, Prudence

  Robert Lowth, Rev. Peter HALL (1834). “Sermons, and other remains, ... now first collected and arranged, ... with an introductory memoir by ... P. Hall, etc. (P. Barton's sermon at the consecration of Bishop Lowth.).”, p.477

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• Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

  Alexander Pope

  Fool, Sincere, Priests

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

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• In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mean, Forever

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• Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sex, Play, Energy

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• Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Learning, Science, Survival

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