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"Desire is the very essence of man."
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"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."

"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."

"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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