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My answer is simple: lust does not last.
Conquest or simple lust seemed to be on their minds, not "sexual connection," as Roiphe argues.
They are what the English novelist and critic D. H. Lawrence called — in his book about Revelation — "death products," elaborate revenge fantasies driven by "flamboyant hate and simple lust... for the end of the world".
A racy new film, Schiller, portrays the poet as a dashing, flame-haired womaniser, mixing high philosophy with simple lust, and dramatises his feverish search for recognition and success as an author.
As I surveyed the estuaries of Vase Miskina or the obscure, narrow streets in the hills, complete paragraphs flooded my brain; not infrequently, and mysteriously, a simple lust would possess my body.
Or were his motivations a simple lust for money and drugs?
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But if you're just a bespectacled out-of-towner who suffers from simple book lust, its eclectic collection of independent bookstores can scratch your itch, too.
It might have seemed to other guests or to the ever-patient clerk that their eagerness to reach the room was simple summer lust.
He asked, "What, then, is it about China that makes it O.K.? Let us assume it is not simple greed, or lust for power".
But Michael's often sexually charged songs were more than simple tales of lust and longing; long after he had abandoned the heterosexual frisson of his early pop years Michael pushed public boundaries too.
Lust pure and simple?
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