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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."
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"Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one..."
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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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"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
Journalism
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man
"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time
"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Love
"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
Family
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
Happiness
"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country."
Man
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