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Desire itself is movement not in itself desirable; love is itself unmoving, only the cause and end of movement, timeless, and undesiring except in the aspect of time caught in the form of limitation between un-being and being.
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Desire Itself Is Movement Not In Itself

T. S. Eliot
Desire itself is movement not in itself desirable; love is itself unmoving, only the cause and end of movement, timeless, and undesiring except in the aspect of time caught in the form of limitation between un-being and being.
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