"A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire."

Desire, Living, Will

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"A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire."

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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

Desire, Faults, Mind, Sincerity

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

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Desire, Control, Love, Power

"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."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Desire, Mind, Lust, Love

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

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Hunger, Longing, Emotion

"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

Desire, Attraction, Cynicism, Affection

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

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Fear, Affection, Darkness

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Desire, Fulfillment, Life, Human

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

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Desire, Comfort, Guest, Master

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Desire, Strength, Food, Life

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

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Desire, Love, Dream, Longing

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"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

Woman

"We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative."

Vision

"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."

Change

"Lying is done with words and also with silence."

Deception

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

Poetry

"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."

Work

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Death

"Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling."

Emotional

"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."

Time

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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