Desire & longing
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“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" And then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
―A. A. Milne
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I don’t know what they are called, the spaces in between seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals.
—Salvador Plascencia
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You got it, you got it bad
When you're on the phone
Hang up and you call right back
You got it, you got it bad
If you miss a day without your friend
Your whole life's off-track
―Usher
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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Anytime she's goes away
―Bill Withers
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She says
forget what you have to do
pretend there is nothing
outside this room
―Ani DiFranco
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It's only what I want
that makes me weak.
―Gillian Welch
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If you are the desert, I'll be the sea
If you ever hunger, hunger for me
Whatever you ask for
that's what I'll be
―George Michael
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With a red guitar
on fire―
Desire
―U2
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Oh, oh, oh
I'm on fire
―Bruce Springsteen
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Everybody's looking for something.
―Eurythmics
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Because the world is round
it turns me on.
―Beatles
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I want more,
impossible to ignore
impossible to ignore
―Cranberries
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You speak to me in riddles
and
You speak to me in rhymes
My body aches
to breathe your breath
Your words keep me alive
―Sarah McLachlan
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I wish I could turn back the clock and find you sooner so I can love you longer.
—Unknown
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The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.
—Unknown
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
—Jorge Luis Borges
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Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
—Haruki Murakami
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Don’t write love poems when you’re in love. Write them when you’re not in love.
—Richard Hugo
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I don't know who you are
but I,
I'm with you
—Avril Lavigne
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One little star, smiling tonight
knows where you are
Stay, little star, steady and bright
to guide me afar
Blow, little wind, over the deep
for now I've begun
Hurry and take me
straight into the arms
of my dear someone
—Gillian Welch
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’cause you're the only song
I want to hear
a melody softly soaring
through my atmosphere
—Death Cab for Cutie
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I want to be with you everywhere.
—Fleetwood Mac
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I only wanna be with you.
—Hootie & The Blowfish
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All I want is you.
—U2
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‘cause you blow my mind.
—Beach House
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