Mason Cooley Quotes About Desire
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Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.
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Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
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As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.
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Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.
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Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.
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The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
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The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.
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The desire to perform impedes conversation.
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Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.
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The desire to be significant casts a pall.
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Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
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When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
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Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
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I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
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Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
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The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.
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Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.
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Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
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Rebuttals never alter desire.
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Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
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