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Need (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠drive a marriage to seek God the way the poor apply to the state loan-office, and no one has a pleasant feeling about the loan-office.

Need (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the poet's highest praise — 'he needs to write' — and the only truly poor man is the one who lived his life without ever needing anything.

Need (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠grows slowly gives life its highest significance — and the worst thing religion can do is satisfy a craving before it has appeared.

Need (n.) runs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠backwards before God: in the body, the less one needs the more perfect one is, but the more one needs God, the more perfect one becomes.

Need (n.) for ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠earthly goods diminishes as man perfects himself; with God the principle reverses: the more man needs God, the more perfect he is.

Need (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠wealth when love's need is so great it could almost produce its own object — like a man so needing to talk that, on a desert isle, any man would do.

Need (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nourishment are close kin: the greater the need, the nearer the nourishment — as Danish ties 'nourishment' to 'near.'

Need (n.) before ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠God reverses the rule of earthly goods: there, the less one needs the more perfect; before God, the more a man needs him, the more perfect he is.

Need (n.) names ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠both the greatest wretchedness and the greatest wealth: the highest praise of a poet is that he needs to write, of a girl that she needs to love.

Need (n.) carries ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its own nourishment, as God puts no fish in a sea that lacks its food plant: faith is found in worrying that one lacks faith, love in worrying that one does not love.