passion quotes

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A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot.
...it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
When my lover came to bed,
the knot came untied
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She's in the house.
She's at turn after turn.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give f ...
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
The fact is that love is of two kinds--one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to whi ...
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especial ...
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, ...
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
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