desire

I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

We're bound by our desire to be right.

I__e pressed sofar away frommy desire thatif you askedme what Iwant I would,accepting the harmoniouscompletion of thedrift, say annihilation,probably.

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.

You're only as old as your boy toy...

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Tonight, can we just pretend you want me to?

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

desires are not killed by fulfilling them

Start maximising what you have, instead of worrying what you don__ have.

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

Even dead, Scarlett seemed able to graft my thoughts onto yearnings a gentleman should never ever contemplate. But then again, no gentleman had ever lived a night wrapped in her cool limbs, savouring such sordid and delightful affections as I had. Scarlett__ attentions had raised me above God, but so help me, in no time she had thrown me down to the devil. And then the killings had begun.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.

But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?''To live,' said Camilla.'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

And there was born that so mysterious thing that we call 'love' between man and woman; the thing that transcends, uplifts, indeed is the sole enoblement of our act of lust.

They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.