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Wishful Quotes (page 51)

I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that love of death (the turned-away side of life) is continually and involuntarily included - which actually happens invariably in the great motions of love, which are impetuous and illimitable. Rainer Maria Rilke
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short. Jane Austen
Moliere quote: "I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish."
I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish. Moliere
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel. Marcel Proust
But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a harmonious, organised world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel. Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Tallis house, kept her, at least during the long summer holidays, from girlish intrigues... Ian Mcewan
It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. S. I. Hayakawa
James T. Farrell quote: "All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no..."
All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse. James T. Farrell
I have never had much need for companionship, unless it was the companionship of someone I could call a friend. Certainly I have seldom wished the conversation of strangers or the sight of strange faces. I believe rather that when I was alone I felt I had in some fashion lost my individuality; to the thrush and the rabbit I had been not Severian, but Man. The many people who like to be utterly alone, and particularly to be utterly alone in a wilderness, do so, I believe, because they enjoy... Gene Wolfe
I saw a star slide down the sky. Blinding the north as it went by. Too buring and too quick to hold. Too lovely to be bought or sold. Good only to make wishes on. And then forever to be gone Sara Teasdale
...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'. Albert Camus
When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that... Jean Rhys
...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side. Glenn Beck
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners Robertson Davies
When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school. Janet Evanovich
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. Doug Coupland

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