Lust
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Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
Sabbath's Theater
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
Narcissus and Goldmund
You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?
Last Poems, 1936-1939, The Spur
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