“The desire to see for the sake of seeing is with most people the only desire to be gratified; hence the delight in detail.”

“Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.”

“What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.”

“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”

“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.”

“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”

“What in her do I require?
The face of gratified desire.”

“You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”

“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.”

“Of all the clever people round me here
I most delight in Me –
Mine is the only voice I care to hear,
And mine the only face I like to see.”