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Quotes About Desire

my own desire for her blinds me when she is near
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I'll die if you touch me, I said. You are sure you are not coming with me? Is there no hope of your coming? Tell me only this. No, she said. No, honey, no. She had never called me honey before.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío alma mía . Lo-li-ta: la punta de la lengua emprende un viaje de tres pasos paladar abajo hasta apoyarse, en el tercero, en el borde de los dientes. Lo. Li. Ta.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I said nothing. I pushed her softness back into the room and went in after her. I ripped her shirt off. I unzipped the rest of her, I tore off her sandals. Wildly, I pursued the shadow of her infidelity; but the scent I traveled upon was so slight as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman's fancy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
sex is but the ancilla of art
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
She showed a fierce insatiable curiosity for my past. She desired me to resuscitate all my loves so that she might make me insult them, and trample upon them, and revoke them apostately and totally, thus destroying my past.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Eis a pessoa que eu quero. Olá, pessoa! Não me ouve.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita. Repeat till the page is full, printer.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. ... But in my arms she was always Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ero un mostro pentapodo, ma ti amavo. Ero ignobile e brutale e turpido e tutto quello che vuoi, ma ti amavo, ti amavo! E c'erano momenti in cui sapevo come ti sentivi, e saperlo era l'inferno.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
While my body knew what it craved for, my mind rejected my body's every plea. One moment I was ashamed and frightened, another recklessly optimistic. Taboos strangulated me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No, no puedes echarle mano de una pistola y pegarle un tiro a una chica a la que ni siquiera conoces, simplemente porque te atrae.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Her painted eyelids were closed. A tear of no particular meaning gemmed the hard top of her cheek. Nobody could tell what went on in that little head. Waves of desire rippled there. — Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Had I not been a heterosexual male, I would have been a Lesbian.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What he really wanted was to tear a hole in his world and escape.
~ Vladimir Nabokov Signs and
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.
~ Vladimir Nabokovir Nabokov
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
~ W.C. Fields
Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.
~ Langston Hughes
Without rest in the darkness, Weary as the tired night, My soul Empty as the silence, Empty with a vague, Aching emptiness, Desiring, Needing someone, Something.
~ Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind ?
~ Langston Hughes
Love, Oh, love is Such a strange disease. Love, Oh, love is Such a strange disease. When it hurts yo' heart you Sho can't find no ease.
~ Langston Hughes