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This passage summarizes different perspectives on the paradoxical nature of desire from thinkers throughout history. It discusses how desire can only exist for something that is absent or lacking, and is impossible to satisfy once the desired object is possessed. Plato, Sappho, Simone Weil, Emily Dickinson, Petrarch, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jacques Lacan are all cited exploring how desire depends on absence and involves the contradictory forces of love and hate. The passage concludes that no one des

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I.M.C.

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