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    William Faulkner
    “The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: seduction, soldier-s-pay, words
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    Victor Hugo
    “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: attraction
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    Alain de Botton
    “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: attraction, health, love, pathology, right, wrong
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: attraction, man, standard, woman
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    Groucho Marx
    “I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed.

    Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attraction, interested, men, nudity, sex, women
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: attainment, desire
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    Willa Cather
    “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
    tags: desire
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    William Blake
    “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: desire, love
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: desire, inspirational, make-a-difference, motivation
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: desire
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    Criss Jami
    “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships, romance, scorn, uncaring
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
    tags: desire, disatisfaction, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: desire, humor
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: desire, leaving
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.”
    ― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades
    tags: carpe-diem, desire, future, life, present, thoughts, time, today, tomorrow, wasting-time
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    Frank Herbert
    “The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: desire, restraint
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

    (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.)”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & Other Poems
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    Jay McInerney
    “Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
    ― Jay McInerney
    tags: desire, fear, want
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    John Berger
    “To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”
    ― John Berger
    tags: desire, love
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  • #24
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery”
    ― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
    tags: desire
    135 likes



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