“The desire of love, Joy:
The desire of life, Peace:
The desire of the soul, Heaven:
The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever.”

—  William Sharp (writer)

Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Scottish writer 1855–1905

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