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Desire Quotes
"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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"Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?"
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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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"Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are."
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"I tilted my chin up a fraction. 'You can't f-force me to stay here.' I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want to stand out in the downpour, for one, and I had high hopes of finding a phone, for two. 'That sounded more like a question than a statement,' said Patch. 'Then ans-s-swer it.'His rogue smile crept out. 'It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that.'I glanced down at Patch's black shirt, wet and clinging to my body. I brushed past him and shut the bathroom door between us."
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"I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginnings, write of sin.You're the book I love the best,your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You're my letter to desire: And you'll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You're my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends."
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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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"Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it."
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"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."
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"I want you any way I can get you. Not because you're beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you're all those things. I want you because there's no one else like you, and I don't ever want to start a day without seeing you."
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"Why be greedy when you can have it all."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
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"What we long for, we shall possess."
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"I want to drink from you're life force."
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"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."
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"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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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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"Prose: words in their best order, poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"We want money but we crave appreciation."
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"Rapture is costly, it usually means you are overlooking consequences."
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"People shouldn't question their desires. They should do what they want."
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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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"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence."
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"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
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"Because 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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"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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"Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?"
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire."
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"What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?"
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"Let us not fall short of desire, but instead give way to the unspoken passion hidden deep within the closet of our discretion." ['Crépuscule du désir']
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