passion & rage

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pas.sion [pash-uhn]
-noun.
1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
2. strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.
3. strong sexual desire; lust.
4. an instance or experience of strong love or sexual desire.
5. a person toward whom one feels strong love or sexual desire.
6. a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything.
7. the object of such a fondness or desire.
8. an outburst of strong emotion or feeling.
9. violent anger.

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rage [reyj]
-noun.
1. angry fury; violent anger.
2. a fit of violent anger.
3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.
5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.
7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable

Perhaps this is why there is such a thing as a crime of passion…


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  1. jenni on September 15, 2006 11:48 am

    we just had a discussion around the dinner table last night about how a lot of good art has come from people in very desperate life spaces, and why is that? – is it the better art that comes from struggle? i thought of this post and how passion can mean the height of inspiraion or the depths of dissatisfaction. the better art comes from passion.

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