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“I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to his will.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“And this disease that was Swanns love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swanns habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?”
—Li Po (701762)
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