Quotes in this theme
Desire
Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
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Ambrose Bierce
Debauchee, n . One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
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Honoré de Balzac
The more he plumbed the depths of sensual pleasure, the more he emerged with grit rather than pearls.
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George Bernard Shaw
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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Jane Austen
IF A WOMAN DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER SHE SHOULD ACCEPT A MAN OR NOT, SHE CERTAINLY OUGHT TO REFUSE HIM.
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Sylvia Plath
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible.
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Woody Allen
You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smouldering sexuality don't always win, I'm sorry to say.
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