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"Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body."
"But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust."
"Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing."
"I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust."
"Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live."
"The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power."
"Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows."
"What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films."
"O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due."
"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."
"It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet."
"We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets"
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
"Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness."
"Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
"Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"
"red hair is caused by sugar and lust."
"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
"So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back."
