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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds
No one can have all he desires
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got
Consume my heart away, sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is, and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is, and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
The Tower, 1928. Sailing to Byzantium
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