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“Desire your dreams.”

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“... when I am walking down the street to meet him and I know that I have come into his view, and his eyes, as I approach, are giving off sparks of both hunger and affection, the two fighting it out like cats in his pupils, I feel that I would do anything to have that look cast upon me for the rest of my days. I feel that I am known more intimately than perhaps God knows me. And now I have blasphemed, so please burn this letter.”

Love Desire Affection Lust

Book:Frances and Bernard

Source: Frances and Bernard

“Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”

Life Dream Desire Time Goal Sacrifice Cost Payment Price

Book:The Rage of Dragons

Source: The Rage of Dragons

“And she torments me, torments me with love. It is not like before! Before she merely tormented me with her infernal curves, but now I have accepted the whole of her soul into my own and through her have myself become a human being! Brothers Karamazov, Book XI, Ch 5”

Love Soul Desire Woman

Author:Dostoyevsky

“While his parents never stopped being enigmas to him, Estefania's physicality felt graspable to him, a promise that would not withdraw itself. In Estefania, he saw a world to be painted.”

World Love Desire Painting Projection Decadence Within Paravent Walls Idealisation

Book:Within Paravent Walls

Source: Within Paravent Walls

“He desired more, yet more, and finally was not able to desire anything—for whoever knows his heart, whoever has reflected upon the moral nature of man, will certainly agree with me that there can be no pleasure for us without desire.”

Desire Human Nature

Book:Poor Liza

Source: Poor Liza

“I drink and drink their looking, til I'm soaked. I drink and drown in want. I drink, and choke.”

Desire Poetry Franny Choi Soft Science

Book:Soft Science

Source: Soft Science

“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.”

Philosophy Humor Literature

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Where the King’s touch closed me, shut me down, Wren’s opens me up.”

Love Desire Healing Assault Sexual Assault

Book:Girls of Paper and Fire

Source: Girls of Paper and Fire

“Girls don't want men to be quiet and gentle, I'm told. If you're not panting with impatient lust they think you're not interested.”

Desire Sex Dating Iris Murdoch Gender Roles The Message To The Planet

Book:The Message To The Planet

Source: The Message To The Planet

“He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.”

Pain Desire Intimate Tension Iris Murdoch The Message To The Planet

Book:The Message To The Planet

Source: The Message To The Planet