desire Quotes

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“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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“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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