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Tag Name "Lust" (492)

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Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
Eloisa James
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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
David Zindell
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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
Juvenal
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Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr
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I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.
John Clare
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Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Tom Robbins
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Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.
John Wesley
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There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Rumi
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What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
Alexandra Ivy
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.
Shirley MacLaine
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
Ramakrishna
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
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My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mason Cooley
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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane
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Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.
Jim Butcher
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Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.
Robin Sharma
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