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“With power you get what you desire. But with wisdom you discover what is worthwhile to desire.”

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“She glanced at the knife with what seemed to me like longing. "Here's my breast bared to you," she said. "Plunge the knife in." I looked at her naked body which, though within my grasp, I did not possess. Sitting on the side of the bed, I bowed my head meekly. She placed her hand on my cheek and said in a tone that was not devoid of gentleness: "My sweet, you're not the kind of man that kills." I experienced a feeling of ignominy, loneliness, and loss. Suddenly I remembered my mother. I saw her face clearly in my mind's eye and heard her saying to me "It's your life and you're free to do with it as you will." I remembered that the news of my mother's death had reached me nine months ago and had found me drunk and in the arms of a woman. I don't recollect now which woman it was; I do, though, recollect that I felt bo sadness – it was as thought the matter was of absolutely no concern to me. I remembered this and wept from deep within my heart. I wept so much I thought I would never stop. I felt Jean embraceing me and saying things I couln't make out, though her voice was repellent to me and sent a shudder through my body I pushed her violently from me. "I hate you," I shouted at her. "I swear I'll kill you one day." In the throes of my sorrow the expression in her eyes did not escape me. They shone brightly and gave me a strange look. Was it surprise? Was it fear? Was it desire? Then, in a voice of simulated tenderness, she said: "I too, my sweet, hate you. I shall hate you until death.”

Desire Loneliness Sorrow Hatred

Book:Season of Migration to the North

Source: Season of Migration to the North

“You see the beetle too carrying off a leaf on its back. It runs this way, then that way, so that even your desire while you watch the beetle, to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and the words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.”

Desire

Author:Virginia Woolf

“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”

Desire Dancing Obsession Thriller Historical Fiction Ballet Dolls Male Gaze

Book:The Dance of the Dolls

Source: The Dance of the Dolls

“In a room full of burning candles I saw the man staring at me and knew desire would drown everyone standing between us until we are the only two people alive.”

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Book:Sacrament of Bodies

Source: Sacrament of Bodies

“Where you desire to be is entirely your decision. Where you need to be is entirely the decision of your guardian spirit, who knows better.”

Want Desire

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“If the world was populated soley by persons who loved and desired each other symmetrically, it might be happier, but not so interesting.”

Desire Sex Attraction

Book:The Confusion

Source: The Confusion

“We weigh in moments, temporary possibilities. I waiver in desire to feel sensation of a fleeting question. We form meaning in moments, brief starvation of our minds. You either understand possibilities or you question them.”

Moments Feelings Desire Understanding Thoughts Possibilities Understand

Author:Dominic Riccitello

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