“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”
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American author and editor 1972Related quotes
“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Source: Something to Tell You
“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”
Source: The Letter
“Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.”
Quoted in: Peter McWilliams (1997) Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance. p. 23
undated quotes
Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Love is desire for knowledge.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories