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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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Desire is the essence of a man.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
André Breton

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This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”
Baruch Spinoza

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