Daniel HandlerThe thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
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The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. If you want something, you feel it in your heart, but you don't know what it is until it comes along. You can imagine what you want, but what you want isn't always what you imagine. The words of the poet William Blake are an excellent example of this idea. He wrote the lines, “The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
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