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Desire
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
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D.H. Lawrence
If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Antonio Machado
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
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E.M. Forster
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
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Paul Géraldy
What is an obstacle in our loving men is the love they have for themselves, which is touchy, exclusive, inordinate, tragic. We could never love them as much as that.
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E.M. Forster
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Sarah Teasdale
Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.
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Caio Valério Catulo
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.
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Rémy de Gourmont
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love.
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D.H. Lawrence
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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C.S. Lewis
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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