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“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”
“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”
“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”
“But I don't want more things than I need, either.”
“Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...”
“you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves”
“If you only do what you want to do, you won't get there.”
“The hardest thing about being wanted was the hardest thing about wantingwanting badly enough that it gave you stomachache, wanting in a way that was partly about kissing and partly about swallowing...”
“But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. Bu...”
“What exactly is it you want?”
“We are only flesh and blood. We are only chemicals mixing and circuits firing, sometimes in disarray. We are, every last one of us, plagued by useless want.”
“But we dont think too well when we want too much.”
“When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.”
“If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!”
“Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?”
“Everyone has something they can't live without.”
“I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.”
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
“I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.”