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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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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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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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"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"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."
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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness
"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
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
Journalism
"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
Woman
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