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Desire Quotes
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school."
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"Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."
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"In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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"Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow."
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"I can't believe it. He is sporting a bona fide erection in the middle of class. All because of me.In history you learn about entire kingdoms crumbling into chaos because of a woman-or, in some cases, multiple women. I smile at Professor Delacroix, putting an extra bit of swing into my hips as I sashay out the door. I'm beginning to see just how easy it is to bring a man to his knees with a few flashes of bare skin, and the whispered promise of hot, sweaty sex."
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"As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness.This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited!As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch."
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"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."
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"Tonight all the hells of young grief have opened again; the mad words, the bitter resentment, the fluttering in the stomach, the nightmare unreality, the wallowed-in tears. For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats."
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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity."
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"Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand."
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"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
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"There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode."
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"Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?"
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"Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again."
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"Roselyn adored the scent of sex, the wafting aroma of angel fontanels before they earn their halos."
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"Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp."
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"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves."
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"She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation."
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"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
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"If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write."
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