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Desire Quotes
"Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!"
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"I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance."
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"People want incongruous, impossible things."
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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
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"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."
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"And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me."
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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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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 want to drink from you're life force."
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"Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"It's a sin.""How do you know?""Because it feels like one," she managed to say.He laughed quietly and pulled her hips farther toward him with a decisiveness that drew a little yelp from her. "In that case...I never sin by half measures."
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"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."
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"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was locatedwill betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things-the beauty, the memory of our own past-are good images of what wereally desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers.For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."
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"I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."
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"You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely."
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"That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire."
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"The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty."
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."
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"Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart."
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"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."
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"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
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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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"I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away."
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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."
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"Whatever you crave for, leaves you more dissatisfied once experienced!"
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