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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ↗

— Mark Twain

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You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career? ↗

— Kim Cattrall

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He liked to touch, she realized. In bed, he kept his arms around her or a hand on her like now. The way he played with her breasts, or just touched her, or ran his hands over her body, made her feel so...so beautiful, Desirable. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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