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Longing quotes

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“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!” Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” - 1927

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

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