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• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

  J. Lynn

  Being In Love, Differences, Loving Someone

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• Lust is the cause of generation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Generations, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.337, GENERAL PRESS

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• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  John Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Cutting

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

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• 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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Yield, Giving

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

  Edward Abbey

  Wrath, Next, Sin

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

  Thomas Boston

  Heart, Men, May

  Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.152

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• I lust love to play football.

  Ray Nitschke

  Football, Play, Love Lust

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• The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Civilization, Degrees, Arbitrary

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5

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• Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

  Charles MacArthur

  Travel, Adventure, Men

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• He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Heart, Action

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

  Rick Warren

  Arousal, Spontaneous, Natural

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• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

  Thomas Otway

  Philosophy, Ambition, Enjoyment

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• One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Prayer, Love Is

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• I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Kissing, Boys, Bed

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography". Book by Aleister Crowley (Chapter 54), 1969.

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Comfort

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

  Plato

  Love, Money, War

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• Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Suffering, Path, Forbidden

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• The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Gold, Lasts

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.328

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• Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

  Georges Bernanos

  Sex, Men, Humanity

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• There is no disease so destructive as lust.

  Chanakya

  Disease, Destructive

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  Karl Kraus

  Christian, Morality, Remorse

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fun, Book, Pride

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• Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

  John Wilmot

  Natural, Rochester, Mere

  'A Ramble in St James' Park'

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