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“Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.”
“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ”
“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
“You have a dress with a dcolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar ...”
“In would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
“Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination...”
“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
“I remember passion.”
“Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.”
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once, but many, many times, You'll kill me if you stop, you'll kill me if you stop, because it was ...”
“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”
“She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, e...”
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
“...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.”
“Passion precedes prosperity.”
“An extreme passion of any human being is to be unique”
“Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.”
“Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned su...”
“Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.”
“I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.”
