"Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

Melody Lee, American Poet

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

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"I want to drink from you're life force."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

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"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too."

"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."

"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."

"I want to drink from you're life force."

"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."