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Desire Quotes
"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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"I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine."
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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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"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
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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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"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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"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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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
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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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"Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again."
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"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice."
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"How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?"
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"I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world."
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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
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"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
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"I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire."
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"We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us."
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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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"Oh, sweet! New man meat's made it to town, y'all. Let's gobble."
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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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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
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"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
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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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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
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"I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human."
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"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
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"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
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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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