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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.