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I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

The Captive & The Fugitive

…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.

The Curfew

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

The Common Reader

But a gentleman may embrace a doctrine without necessarily wearing the garb that goes with it, and he may wear the garb without necessarily comprehending the doctrine.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

The Elephant Vanishes

I've learned that the more people I love — and I mean really, really, completely, unconditionally love — the happier I am.

Friends Without Benefits

Uno se pierde en la vida diaria como si entrara en un bosque. Se encuentra gente, se la pierde de nuevo, como los árboles pierden sus hojas.

Flight Without End

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

The Farthest Shore

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

Glitterland

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

House of Dolls

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, they come back again without your permission." And sometimes they come back incomplete or warped

Bitterblue

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

A Bird Without Wings

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

Donald E. Westlake

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

Karel Capek

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Luigi Pirandello