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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Edgar Allan Poe
Attachment, Suffering, Desire

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe
Fire, Agony, Desire
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.70, Lulu.com

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Edgar Allan Poe
Regret, Wish, Desire
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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