It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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