thirst for
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.