"Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies"
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"The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."
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"Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love."
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"Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity."
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"he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins."
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"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."
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"Love forgives the lover even his lust."
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"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
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"Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust."
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"Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?"
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"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."
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"I have a lust for life."
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"I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands."
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"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness."
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"Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed."
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"Wickedness is nourished by lust."
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"Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre."
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
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"Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God."
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"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
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