"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."

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Source : Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

Charles Baudelaire

#Inspire Quotes #Desire Quotes #Conquer Quotes

“In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.”
“Men and Melons are hard to know.”
“Narrative is the beginning of recovery.”

Source : Amanda Ripley (2009). “The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why”, p.12, Random House
“I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.”
“We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.”
“Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.”
“Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?”
“I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.”

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