"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."

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Mortimer Adler

#Self Quotes #Lust Quotes #Sensual Quotes

“We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.”
“I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.”
“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”
“I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.”
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.”
“Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.”
“In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.”

Source : Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.59, Random House
“You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.”

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