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Quotes About Desire

Philosophy is erotic, not just epistemic.
~ Simon Critchley
The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was coming up next. It was irresistible to click onto the next random selection. Even if it was something great, there was the possibility something greater still would flash up next.
~ Simon Reynolds
Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.
~ Simon Vestdijk
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I tried to love you less.I couldn't.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or feels she is exerting it of her own accord, she is much pleased with her conquests, but to the extent that her face, her figure, her flesh are facts she must bear with, she wants to hide them from this independent stranger who lusts after them.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
But I miss you to the point of anguish.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
La stupidità ci faceva ridere, era uno dei nostri grandi motivi di spasso, ma aveva anche qualcosa di spaventevole. Se avesse prevalso, non avremmo più avuto il diritto di pensare, di prendere in giro, di provare veri desideri, veri piaceri. Bisognava combatterla o rinunciare a vivere.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
É completamente estúpido escrever cartas de amor, não pode ser transcrito através de uma simples carta, mas o que fazer quando este horrível oceano nos separa do homem que amamos?
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Dans la femme parée, la Nature est présente, mais captive, modelée par une volonté humaine selon le désir de l'homme.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Gozar de las cosas bellas le basta; acepta el lujo y la vida fácil, le gusta la felicidad. Yo necesito una vida devoradora. Necesito obrar, gastarme, realizarme, necesito un fin que alcanzar, dificultades que vencer, una obra que cumplir. No estoy hecha para el lujo. Nunca podrá satisfacerme lo que le satisface.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
C'est pour sauvegarder ce mystère que les hommes ont supplié longtemps les femmes de ne pas abandoner les robes longues (...) tout ce qui accentue en l'Autre la différence le rend plus désirable, puisque c'est l'Autre en tant que tel que l'homme veut s'approprier.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The passionate man seeks possession; he seeks to attain being. The failure and the hell which he creates for himself have been described often enough. He causes certain rare treasures to appear in the world, but he also
~ Simone de Beauvoir
With regard to us, she often displayed a cruel unkindness that was more thoughtless than sadistic: her desire was not to cause us unhappiness but to prove her own power to herself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
They're devouring my life with their mouths, with their eyes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Me preguntaba como se logra vivir todavia cuando no se espera nada más de sí
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The fact that she accomplishes nothing, that she is nothing, will make her impulses only the more passionate. Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Ningún hombre consentiría en ser mujer, pero todos desean que haya mujeres.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Jealousy is not contemptible real love has a beak and claws.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Basta!' Seguí. Quería que se fuera; verdaderamente lo quería, era sincera. Sincera porque no creí que lo hiciera. Era como un espantoso psicodrama en el que uno juega a la verdad.
~ Simone de Beauvoir