1 It is the desire that decides.
2 He may desire to escape pain, or to enjoy pleasure.
3 And as he left me I was aware of the same desire at my heart.
4 It is the wind that fans the desire until it leaps up to mastery.
5 For look you," he was saying, "as I see it, a man does things because of desire.
6 I was wild with desire, like a child with a new toy, to hoist something with my shears.
7 I hesitated, the desire to race back and up the steps to the deck almost overpowering me.
8 If it is a good soul, it will desire and do the good action, and the contrary if it is a bad soul.
9 So I thought it out at the time, feeling the need for vindication and desiring to be at peace with my conscience.
10 It may not fan sufficiently to make the desire overmastering, but in so far as it fans at all, that far is it temptation.
11 Wolf Larsen, evidently, had sifted the great philosopher's teachings, rejecting and selecting according to his needs and desires.
12 It is fanned, as by a wind, by sight of the thing desired, or by a new and luring description or comprehension of the thing desired.
13 This, too, I learned, and quickly, for I felt somehow a wild desire to vindicate myself in Wolf Larsen's eyes, to prove my right to live in ways other than of the mind.
14 "I think that he is a better man than you are," I answered, impelled, somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt was about to break upon his head.
15 You lay the stress upon the desire apart from the soul, Miss Brewster lays the stress on the soul apart from the desire, and in point of fact soul and desire are the same thing.
16 It was an even choice between this and the west-north-westerly course which the wind permitted; but the warm airs of the south fanned my desire for a warmer sea and swayed my decision.
17 Then, as the moments went by, it came to me that the situation was analogous to the one in which I had approached the long-maned bull, my intention of clubbing obscured by fear until it became a desire to make him run.
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