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Quotes About Desire

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
qué más quisiera uno que irse sin conocer la vida!...
~ Unknown
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
~ Miguel de Cervantes
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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~ Unknown
Que sueño...? Dejadme soñar; si ese sueño es mi vida, no me despertéis de él. Creo
~ Miguel de Unamuno
E o segredo da vida humana, o segredo universal, o segredo raiz do qual todos os outros segredos surgem, é o desejo de mais vida, o desejo furioso e insaciável de ser tudo o mais sem nunca deixar de ser nós mesmos, de tomar posse de todo universo sem deixar que o universo se apodere de nós e nos absorva; é o desejo de ser outra pessoa sem deixar de ser eu mesmo, e continuar sendo eu mesmo ao mesmo tempo que sou outra pessoa.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
to enjoy the flesh of one's own soul).
~ Miguel de Unamuno