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Desire Quotes
"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."
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"The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
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"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."
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"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."
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"Raphael met Michaela's gaze. "If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?"Her smile never faded. "In an instant."
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"Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"...That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important."
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"Desires are done by the 'Pudgal' (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don't you stop it? But that doesn't happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex)."
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"Men and women, they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later."
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"What you want let it go., if it is truly yours, it will come back to you."
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"And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.... The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
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"This is why I stayed away,' he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. 'Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore."
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"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
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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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"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."
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"Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."
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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
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"If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more."
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"Solo mirarte me proporciona el placer más intenso que jamás haya sentido."
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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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"Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner."
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"I want excitement; and I don't care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat."
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"What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men's eyes turned toward her, that moment when he offered her to the world. What he loved in her was his power and his ambition to live. Even his desire, the deepest craving of his flesh, probably derived from this initial astonishment at possessing a lovely body, at mastering and humiliating it."
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"Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug."
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"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
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"People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most."
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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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"Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed."
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"Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire."
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"Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."
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"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."
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"But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me."
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