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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture -
The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
Introductio ad Prudentiam II (1740) 178 -
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit -
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
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