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«We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.»
Author: Roger Bannister
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craving, high society, indomitable, jump, outlet, outlets, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts
«You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.»
«When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.»
«Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Buildings, craving, creeds, flexible, imposed, lump, lust after, obstruction, obstructions, weariness
«You play like a child, craving sweets; moment by moment, you become more entangled in emotional attachment.»
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