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• Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

  Steven Erikson

  Jobs, Men, Flames

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• I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

  Keira Knightley

  Jealousy, Fake People, Anger

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• If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

  Christopher Meloni

  Faces, Face Value, Ifs

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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

  Revenge, War, Wipe

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Crystals, Doe

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• How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Power, Fire, Order

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• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

  William Penn

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Regret, Hate, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Believe, Pride

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

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• That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

  Rob Sheffield

  Blood, Secret, Desire

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• Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

  Helen Fisher

  Jealous, Flirting, Romance

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• Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

  William Carlos Williams

  Southern, Knees, Thighs

  "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams".

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• She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked at the attractive women he would look at...She had become him: she longed for these women. But she was also herself, and so she despised them. She lusted after them, but she also wanted to beat them up. A rapist. She had become a rapist, driving to work in a car.

  Lorrie Moore

  Car, Desire, Looks

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• There's a lust to get on TV.

  Doug Benson

  Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Two, Years

  Marina Warner (2016). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

  Stephen I of Hungary

  Humble, Justice, Catholic

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• You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Thinking, Age

  'The Spur'

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom, Revelations

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• O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Brother, Art, Kings

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?

  Steven Barnes

  Doors, Differences, Guy

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• Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

  Hart Crane

  Fake, Ruins, Mockery

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Water, Desert, Looks

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• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Feet, Self

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