"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

Desire, Direction, Duty, Profit

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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line 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

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

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Fear, Affection, Darkness

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Desire, Strength, Food, Life

"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

Holly Black, American Author

Desire, Fear, Emotion, Passion

"Desires kept within the mind are simply unrealised dreams."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Desire, Dream, Mind, Hope

"If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Desire, Dream, Whisper, Love

"Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Desire, Loneliness, Lust, Disappointment

"I said that sometimes it's too much.""Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.""You want someone whose love will fit around your finger."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

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"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."

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"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."

Accountability

"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."

Love

"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."

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"Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect."

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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