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Desire Quotes
"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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"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
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"Unable to help herself, she traced the tat, startled by the black and red ink mixed together. But it was the dragon design itself that made her skin prickle with awareness, appreciation. Soul-sucking desire."
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"Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine."
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"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust."
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"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."
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"You're not the only one in this relationship who loves achallenge, he says. 'And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chipcookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them."
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"I wish, ' I said. 'I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra."
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"Think clearly here-desire does not produce fun, but yearning does. To identify the transition point between these two, look at desire as accumulating or consuming, and yearning as letting go of or giving. You don't collect truth or love, for example, you give them, and in the giving they come into being. And you have fun. Real fun, guilt-free fun, resentment-free fun, doubt-free fun; you experience and become the questions you engage-discipline and strength, imagination, independence, fearlessness, trust and freedom, knowledge, truth."
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"People are secretive when they have secrets."
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"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
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"I want to read every book that's writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue."
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"I put what was left of the ice cube into my mouth. Her lips parted, watching my every move. I didn't hesitate, diving back in to feed on my mate, my tongue cooling the fire and heating her desire all at once."
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"I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water."
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"I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me."
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"I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough."
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"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."
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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
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"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars."
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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
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"You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked very much and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger."
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"We need the Fallen Legion, I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.'And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in, Firen said dryly.'That'll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand, I grumbled."
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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
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"It is when I find my soul is lost and lustfully wandering betwixt heaven and hell, and in that moment of spiritual bliss when the chances of recovering from falling into the sexual abyss are zero...I find the odds extremely appealing...."
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"I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I'll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for."
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"The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love."
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