“Goodness is required even in thoughts and desires.”

“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.”

“Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.”

“I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn't. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.”

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.”

“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”

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

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

“What is at stake here is precisely the problem of the fulfillment of desire: when we encounter in reality an object which has all the properties of the fantasized object of desire, we are nevertheless necessarily somewhat disappointed; we experience a certain this is not it; it becomes evident that the finally found real object is not the reference of desire even though it possesses all the required properties.”

“For your birthday…May you receive all you require and desire!”