5. “I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.” —Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Lust, desire and wanting:
6. “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.”—Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
7. “We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.” —Marquis de Sade, Aline et Vacour
8. “…As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened.” —Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair
9. “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
10. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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