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“The field of drives that are autoerotic, partial and solely focused on pleasure is a different field from that of love which is total, reciprocal and focused particularly on the other's desire.”

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“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”

Desire Greed Moderation Stoicism

Book:The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus

Source: The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus

“You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.”

Desire Memories Fiction Family Mystery Aging Illness

Book:Swift as Desire

Source: Swift as Desire

“Some plants were pyrophytic and only germinated when ravaged by fire. Gavin had scorched her with the savagery of his cruel passions until she had been conditioned to bloom in the flames.”

Desire Passion Sex Dark Fire Lust Flames Erotic Inferno

Book:Escape

Source: Escape

“He knows that there is something wrong, forbidden in what he is about to do, but he cannot help himself, for he is a fanatic. He is driven by a dark desire. To see, to feel, to discover is all. His is a passion, not a romance.”

Desire Passion Discovery Forbidden Fanaticism Notes On The Art Of Surgery Richard Selzer The Surgeon As A Priest

Book:Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

“Ah, but her romance wasn’t THAT romance. It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words.”

Book:Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

“Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?”

Love Romance Desire Poetry Passion Donne

Book:Donne: Poems

Source: Donne: Poems

“The king poured maple syrup on his waffle. The syrup puddled the depressions in the waffle the way that desire puddles the folds in the brain”

Desire Breakfast Brains Syrup Monarch Waffle

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one's secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown. My deepest joy is to write. To accept the world and to accept pleasure—but only when I am stripped bare of everything. I should not be worthy to love the bare and empty beaches if I could not remain naked in the presence of myself. For the first time I can understand the meaning of the word happiness without any ambiguity. It is a little different from what men normally mean when they say: 'i am happy.”

Philosophy Intelligence Notebook Intellectuals Scholars

Book:Notebooks 1935-1942

Source: Notebooks 1935-1942

“I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!”

Desire Commitment Falling In Love Temptation Monk Vow Dilemma Game Chastity

Book:Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967]

Source: Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967]

“He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire”

Book:In the Night of Time

Source: In the Night of Time