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"I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name."
Nalini Singh
"I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name."
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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."
Samuel Alexander
"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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"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
William Kidd
"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
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"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
Marlene Dietrich
"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
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"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
Joseph Butler
"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
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"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
Daniel Craig
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
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"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
Clyde Tombaugh
"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
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"I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me."
Lawrence Welk
"I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me."
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"A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
Roland Barthes
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
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"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
John Cassavetes
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."
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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."
John Osborne
"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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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
Democritus
"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value."
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"I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do."
Anne Rice
"I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do."
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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."
Nenia Campbell
"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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"Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair."
Carla H. Krueger
"Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair."
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"Every desire has it's own demand and a price to pay."
Auliq Ice
"Every desire has it's own demand and a price to pay."
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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
Tacitus
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
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"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
Titus Livius
"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
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"I nibbled my lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.''I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus."
Becca Fitzpatrick
"I nibbled my lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.''I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus."
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"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."
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"Sierra couldn't afford complications, not in her position, but the way he flirted with her and teased had amped her touch hunger to a deafening roar."
Katherine McIntyre
"Sierra couldn't afford complications, not in her position, but the way he flirted with her and teased had amped her touch hunger to a deafening roar."
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"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire."
Richard Krajicek
"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire."
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"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
Francis Beaumont
"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
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"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
Martin Van Buren
"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
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"I have no desire to carry a movie."
Amy Sedaris
"I have no desire to carry a movie."
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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."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"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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"The things they say!A truck driver would blush.I would never talk that wayto Trevor he walks on water.I want him to think I do too.For a while, he did, or at leasthe pretended to.I did things with TrevorI wouldn't dare to confessto anyone-things I didn'tknow anyone did.But he wanted me to,so I did. That's what you dowhen you love someone,right?"
Ellen Hopkins
"The things they say!A truck driver would blush.I would never talk that wayto Trevor he walks on water.I want him to think I do too.For a while, he did, or at leasthe pretended to.I did things with TrevorI wouldn't dare to confessto anyone-things I didn'tknow anyone did.But he wanted me to,so I did. That's what you dowhen you love someone,right?"
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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."
Margaret Atwood
"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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"Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy."
Bryant McGill
"Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy."
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"Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it."
Kiersten White
"Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it."
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"I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name."
Kenya Wright
"I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name."
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"He rose up over her, intending to enter her when she suddenly sat up and shoved at his shoulders. He fell onto his back with a grunt. Shara was on all fours, her hair tousled, as she crawled toward him.In all his millennia of life, he had never seen anything so sexy. His cock twitched, and her gaze lowered to his engorged arousal."
Donna Grant
"He rose up over her, intending to enter her when she suddenly sat up and shoved at his shoulders. He fell onto his back with a grunt. Shara was on all fours, her hair tousled, as she crawled toward him.In all his millennia of life, he had never seen anything so sexy. His cock twitched, and her gaze lowered to his engorged arousal."
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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."
Kahlil Gibran
"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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"What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted-? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?"
Donna Tartt
"What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted-? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?"
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"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
Sara Sheridan
"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
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"The more one gets the more one wants."
Louisa May Alcott
"The more one gets the more one wants."
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"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
Joan Chen
"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
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"I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault."
Heston Blumenthal
"I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault."
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"It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made."
Frank B. Kellogg
"It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made."
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"Do you think about making love with me?'I lie awake most nights, fantasizing about sleeping next to her ... loving her. 'Right now, muneca, makin' love to you is the only thing on my mind."
Simone Elkeles
"Do you think about making love with me?'I lie awake most nights, fantasizing about sleeping next to her ... loving her. 'Right now, muneca, makin' love to you is the only thing on my mind."
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"All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee."
Roman Payne
"All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee."
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"I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you."
Becca Fitzpatrick
"I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you."
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."
James Allen
"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."
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"She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA."
Maggie Stiefvater
"She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA."
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"But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?"
Mary Balogh
"But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?"
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"You have a gorgeous ass, and it holds handprints beautiful."
Cherise Sinclair
"You have a gorgeous ass, and it holds handprints beautiful."
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"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
Willa Cather
"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
William Godwin
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
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