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Instead, desire (as opposed to whim, caprice, lust or appetite) can be understood as analogous to the clay of your identity, the seed of your personality. Or maybe not so literal or objective as clay or seed. Maybe something more ephemeral, insubstantial, subjective: a whisper, a shadow, a glimmer.
David Barringer, in his excellent essay “Desire’s Design”