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Laughter scares off lust.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 425, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); The Gay Science, p. 124, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Vintage Books (1974). The Gay Science, first edition, "Second Book," aphorism 62, "Love," (1882).)
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The oftener seen, the more I lust,
(Barnabe Googe (1540-1594), British poet. Out of Sight, Out of Mind (l. 1). . .
100 Poems by 100 Poets; an Anthology. Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury, comps. (1986) Grove Press.)
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[Antony] is become the bellows and the fan
To cool a gipsy's lust.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Philo, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 1, l. 9-10.
One acerbic view of the love of Antony and Cleopatra.)
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Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
(Piers Paul Read (b. 1941), British author. Daily Telegraph (London, Oct. 3, 1990).)
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But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.
(Harold Monro (1879-1932), British poet. Milk for the Cat (l. 19-20). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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Marlowe went muttering to death
When he had done with song and lust.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Non Omnis Moriar.")
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My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse,
And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.
(Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Wife of Bath's Prologue (l. 617-618). . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and ascetism, piety and pornography.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Review of Solitaria, by V. V. Rozanov, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, p. 370, Viking Press (1936).)
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