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Desirable Quotes (page 37)

Wallace Stevens quote: "Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall..."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams. And our desires. Wallace Stevens
There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires. Bertrand Russell
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved. Jane Austen
J. G. Ballard quote: "Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and..."
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. J. G. Ballard
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent. John F. Kennedy
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper..."
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Jeanette Winterson
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience..."
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. Cormac McCarthy
Robert Frost quote: "Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire"
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire Robert Frost
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a... Truman Capote
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is the best for man. The second best is a formal order. The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy. The tune is catching and will not stop. Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, dance, dance till you drop. W. H. Auden
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest..."
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. Federico Garcia Lorca
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp... Simone de Beauvoir
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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