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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
-Thomas Adams
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
-Aesop
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
-Margery Allingham
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
-Honore de Balzac
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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.
-Roland Barthes
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
-Georges Bataille
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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
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
-George Brett
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
-George Burns
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
-Joseph Campbell
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It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter's rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze.
-Truman Capote
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
-George Chapman
Monsieur D'Olive (act V, sc. 1, l. 8)
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
-Marquis De Sade
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
-Denis Diderot
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
-Denis Diderot
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Books about Passion
