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"Desire is the essence of a man."
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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."

"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."

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

"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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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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