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#1

“Why are desire scales 1-10? They should be 1-12, like a clock, because I want her 1-12, I mean like all the time.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#2

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: desire, lust

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#3

“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction

tags: addiction, desire, love, lust, pornography, sex

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#4

“What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?”
― Alexandra Ivy, Embrace the Darkness

tags: lust, power, submission, undergarments, women

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#5

“Now do you understand why I'm interested in you? You're a locked door, sweetheart. You give no one a key and you never answer the door when anyone knocks...Ah, but sometimes, sometimes I get a peek through the keyhole and what I find there...It's like glimpsing you as you're stripping. Underneath all of that darkness is something hungry, something desperate, something, oh, so deliciously vulnerable.”
― Tricia Owens, Fearless Leader

tags: desire, empathy, gay, lust, mm

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#6

“We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.”
― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

tags: cravings, denial, desire, desires, forbidden, forbidden-fruit, lust, needs, temptation, wants

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#7

“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: adventure, bravery, courage, curiousity, freedom, heroism, wonder

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#8

“[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

tags: beauty, women

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#9

“Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

tags: assassination, assault, character, character-assassination, conviction, dislike, do-what-you-love, don-t-give-up, food-for-thought, hate, hatred, israelmore-ayivor, love, love-what-you-do, never-give-up, non-formal, passion, passionate, rejection, societal-rejection, society, torment, torments, verbal-assault

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#10

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: gifts, love, self-confidence

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#11

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
― John Lennon

tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music, self-confidence

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#12

“Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being...'til death do you part.”
― David Dibenedetto, Good Dog: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty

tags: dogs-loyalty, life-lessons, love, true-love, vigilance

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#13

“Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anger, annoyance, anxiety, assunder, asunder, bitterness, care, crush, distrust, envy, funny, green-eyed-monster, habit, heartbeat, hesitation, insecurity, jealousy, love, mistrust, possesiveness, pretence, trouble, vigilance, watchful, watchfulness

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#14

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#15

“Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

tags: authenticity, consciousness, courage, fear, growth, inner-peace, insecurity, inspirational, positive-attitude, psychology, security, self-esteem, self-help, self-improvement, spiritual, tough, vulnerability, wisdom, zen

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#16

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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#17

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#18

“I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."
-p150, NOTES TO SELF”
― Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self

tags: drama, identity, memory, people, soul-searching, teen, ya

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#19

“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
― Donald Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world

tags: algorithms, computer-science, engineering, technology

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#20

“In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.”
― Steven S. Skiena, The Algorithm Design Manual

tags: algorithms, life, persistence

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#21

“Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.”
― Alfred V. Aho

tags: algorithms, computer-science

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#22

“Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.”
― Scott McCloud

tags: follow, learn, watch, work

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#23

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
― Michel de Montaigne

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#24

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: distraction, frustration, perspective, wisdom

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#25

“Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
― Henri Bergson

tags: creation, creativity, genius, scientific-discovery

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#26

“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.”
― Alan Moore

tags: integrity

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#27

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity

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#28

“The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.

If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.”
― Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

tags: perseverance, self-employment, startups

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#29

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
― Machiavelli

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#30

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

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