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• The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

  Douglas Horton

  Love, Happiness, Filled

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• When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

  Alfre Woodard

  Love, Fall, Heart

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• The worst of lusts is vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Vanity, Worst

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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Scandal

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• We got to mediate our greedy levels,
  Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Hip Hop, Devil

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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.

  Mortimer Adler

  Selfish, Giving, Needs

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• What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heat, Fantasy, Grows

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.231, Random House

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Reason, Preference, Loud

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• Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

  Tony Snow

  Confusion, Joy, Triumph

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• But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

  John Milton

  Art, Soul, Inward

  John Milton, “Comus”

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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Powerful, Two, Vehicle

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Limits, Execution

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.133, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

  Tacitus

  Flames, Dominion, Affection

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• Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Real, Mean

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

  Vincent of Lerins

  Men, Errors, Insanity

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• There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Eye, Caring

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.143, Duke University Press

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• Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Demand, Kinky

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• Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Littles

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes”, p.80, Bible Study Books

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• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, Giving Up, War

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• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Drinking, Childhood

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• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

  John Lahr

  Business, Crazy, People

  The Guardian, August 1989.

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• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Mind, Storm

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• Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Animal, Choices, Feelings

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3795, Dell

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