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“I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.”
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I ...”
“In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult th...”
“We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappe...”
“Maybe – let’s not rule it out – this will be the song that cuts clean, the one that matters, the one that sheds standard-issue romance and reveals, under its old skin, a raw blood-red devotion deep...”
“Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.”
“We all are bundles of electric waves or streams of particles – proton, neutron, and electrons. If a piece of metal can be transformed into electric or magnetic waves, so can a string of sound, a th...”
“One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a ...”
“I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.”
“It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.”
“The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.”
“You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is ...”
“The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.”
“When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I ga...”
“If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.”
“It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.”
“The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.”
“My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn’t just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want to marry you and create a million moments every single day.”
“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
“[Dream] I do not want a grape.[Desire] I could make you want one.”
