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Desire Quotes
"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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"If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain."
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"They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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"A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart."
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"Would she flee if she knew the thoughts I kept in my mind? My hands went to her flat stomach. My fingers sank in the soft tan flesh around her waist. One day her belly would be full of my children and her mind would only be focused on me."
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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
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"Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac."
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"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
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"They no longer wanted to entice anyone, all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus."
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"Whatever you crave for, leaves you more dissatisfied once experienced!"
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"Oh God, how she wanted more... She wanted to nibble and feast on much more than his mouth. And she wanted him to devour her. A craving to have his naked body atop her, under her, moving inside her, intensified, and it sent potent heat waves down her spine. If she could lock them in a time warp right now, she would."
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"Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses " whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.' Coraline sighed. 'You really don't understand, do you?' she said. 'I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?"
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"All I've ever wanted was to be near you."
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"Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available."
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter."
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"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"God, you smell good. Your pheromones are a definite mating call to mine."
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"Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want."
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"She had nothing to lose when she looked into those dark limpid pools of desire...Apart from her soul, and even that she would relinquish for one night undulating on his rigid fervour. But to what end? A moment of exquisite bliss? No, she demanded an encore; even her soul had a price..."
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"Find me. Seduce me. I want to be in love with you."
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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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"Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want."
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"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."
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