"Every malady (Übel), every unsatisfied drive, every unassuaged longing, every sense of absence [i.e. of a desired object] is an irritating or stimulating injury and negation of the drive-to-happiness innate in each living and sensing being, and the countervailing affirmation of the drive-to-happiness, accompanied by representations and consciousness, is what we call 'will'" (M, 367).
Perhaps those conversations were not only attempting to resolve the two preoccupations of every exile: longing and logistics.
A French doctor specializing in the same operation said hundreds of men applied to him every day, longing for monkey testicles.
The summer I was fourteen, I watched Spike Lee's feature "Crooklyn," released in 1994, every day, longing to feel close to its funny, relatable teen characters, because they reminded me of my older sister and brother — the large gap in our ages meant that I had missed their childhoods.
Uh, isn't that the same issue every person longing for a career in music faces?
"When I'm in Stockholm, I'm longing every day for that island — for the sea, for nature," he told me.
Tom got into a fight on his first day, and spent every day thereafter longing for his mother to come and take him back.
If these are not exactly the words every wife is longing to hear, however, Mrs. McCain did not protest, or register any reaction at all.
"When I'm in Stockholm, I'm longing every day for that island for the sea, for nature," he told me.
The gotcha-like ending may prove debatable, but Szumowska refuses to judge her protagonist, instead placing him within a persuasive atmosphere of stifled longing: every lingering sunbeam serves as an encouragement to leave the church's darker spaces and come out into the light.
