desire (n.) is contrasted with possession in that desire makes everything blossom while possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust on Desire

love

desire

dirty mind

G.W.F. Hegel

Jacques Lacan

lack

Lord of the Rings

objet petit a

perversion

perversity

Santa Claus

satisfaction

sexual desire

Become More Real When Named

Simmer

Desire is the enemy of sense. Ben Gabirol

However you sort it out, literature is the habitat of solitude. Desire. Impatience.

Desire fades away if you possess, don’t possess anything.

Desire is the beginning of each illusion.

What is often called will, as the impulsive force which determines the duration of an idea in consciousness, should be called desire,—which "is the very essence of man." s Desire is an appetite or instinct of which we are conscious; but instincts need not always operate through conscious desire. 4

is contrasted with possession in that desire makes everything blossom while possession makes everything wither and fade.

Desire makes everything blossom... possession makes everything wither and fade.

, better than anything, prevents the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

 cuts confusedly across other desires such that happiness rarely coincides with the desire that clamored for it.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

is not capable of molding things to itself, but gradually our desire molds itself to things.

desire is such that while we do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

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