"You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed."

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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