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Letter "L" » lust
«I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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awfully, buses, busses, cross, dirty, dirty joke, discreditable, horrid, innocence, jokes, know-all, lavatories, lavatory, lunatics, lust, roads, saints, sentences, virgins
«Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst»
«Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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demands, lust, lusted, lusting, lust after, served, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.»
«Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions»
«Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
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carnal, continual, distinguished, exceeds, indefatigable, lust, singular, singulars, vehemence
«Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.»
«Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.»
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
«Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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glutton, gluttons, lust, surfeit, surfeiting, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
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