Desire is not a lack to be filled, but a force that produces and creates.

Supports

A whole tradition, from to , defines desire as lack: we desire only what we do not have, so to desire is to suffer, and wisdom would consist in desiring less.
But this definition takes the effect for the cause. The artist, the lover, the creator do not desire out of a want of something: they overflow with a force that seeks to express itself and to produce the new. Desire is first this that wants to grow.
To curb this force in the name of tranquility is to prefer a smaller life to a greater one. To affirm one's desires, even in their risk, is to say yes to what one is and to want life to reach beyond itself.

Therefore So a good life is not the most peaceful, but the most intense: the one that affirms its desires instead of guarding against them.

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Deepenings

To will is to will to grow

calls the effort by which each being strives to persevere in its being and to increase its power to act: desire here is not a weakness, it is the very essence of man.
adds the : life does not merely seek to preserve itself, it wills to overcome and to create; a desire is strong only because a life wills, through it, to become more than it is.

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