"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

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"I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?""Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression."I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that.""Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly.He gave a husky laugh. "True."

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"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

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"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

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"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

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"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another."

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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

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"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

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