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Passion

It doesn't matter what the emotion is so long as it's Passionate!
- Brian Atyeo

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings;
but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Edmund Burke

Passion should overwhelm reason time and again.
- Alvaro Castagnet

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their
strength in forging chains for themselves.
- G. K. Chesterton

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion
and the life, whose fountains are within.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All passions exaggerate; it is because they exaggerate that they are passions.
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones,
as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
- de La Rochefoucauld

Reason is, and ought only to be, the servant of the passions.
- David Hume

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people,
must be willing to share their passions with the world.
- Carole Katchen

When the passions become masters, they are vices.
- Blaise Pascal

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something.
It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
- Mary Lou Retton

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
- W. Eugene Smith

Change everything, except your passions.
- Voltaire

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
It must abandon itself to its master passion.
- Rebecca West

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