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Cartier’s store is one big fantasy world, filled with objects most people can’t afford but lust after.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2024

The ability to call someones life "Trauma Porn" or lust after someone's pain to enhance you art career is a luxury that many of us never had.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2021

And yet, the camera I lust after now is exactly this X1D, even while it’s heavier, sometimes clumsier, and consistently slower than most other cameras.

From The Verge Feb. 12, 2018

Today, the rich and powerful still lust after unicorns, only now their worth can rival the G.D.P. of a small country.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2015

And whereas it was said of old, "thou shalt not commit adultery," he expected, that they should not even lust after others, if they were married, or after those in a married state.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson




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