Theodore Dreiser Quotes about Desire

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Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Strong, Tragedy, Desire

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

Theodore Dreiser

Eye, Men, Desire

Theodore Dreiser (1900). “Sister Carrie”, Doubleday Books

Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

Theodore Dreiser

Sunshine, Color, Desire

Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier”, p.95, Booklassic

Theodore Dreiser Quotes about Desire

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