Giovanni's Room quotes about desire

But it was not the same, something was gone; the astonishment, the power, and the joy were gone, the peace was gone.

Me, I want to escape, je veuz m’evader—this dirty world, this dirty body. I never wish to make love again with anything more than the body.

Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear; but they did not work themselves to the beginning until our high beginning was aloes on our tongues.