"The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness."
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"Light and lust are deadly enemies."
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"My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper."
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"You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first."
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"Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower"
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"Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute."
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"Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder."
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"I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love."
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"A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry."
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"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
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"With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?"
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"They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions."
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"Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds."
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"And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine."
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"The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her."
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"They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?"
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"Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by."
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"For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?"
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"It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other."
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"There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage."
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