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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my w ...
The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every da ...
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho ...
But 'twas from mine, he took desire,
Enough to undo the amorous world.
What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
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He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
God suffer little men
The taste of soul's desire.
...there are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,
Desire illimitable, and still content,
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