Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination.
You can live forever for me.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that ...
A thriftless woman burns the entire candle looking for a match.
The starving man will never burn his bread.
The fire doesn't care about the owner of the coat that is burning.
If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.
If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
A forest would want to be burned by its own wood.
Too many candles will burn down the church.
Thanks to one small candle the whole of Moscow burns.
An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.
It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfactio...
Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead. Those who are asleep are divided into two classes, like the Virgins in the parable, waiting for the Bridegroom's coming. The wi...
We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your tears, and it will take on a body. Reality is nothing...
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for ...
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, ...
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.
Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories.
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
