If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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But I want you to put him down.
Woman. What does she want?
One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? Or go off on your own?… You must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
People know what they want because they know what other people want.