I desire to do this/Doing this is very interesting to me

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Do these sentences mean the same thing:
-I desire to do this

-Doing this is very interesting to me
 

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Do these sentences mean the same thing?

1.
I desire to do this.
2.
Doing this is very interesting to me.
Please note my corrections above. You must end every sentence with an appropriate punctuation mark.

Sentence 1 is unnatural. We say "I want to do this". We usually follow "I desire" (when we use it at all) with a noun.
Sentence 2 is grammatical but fairly unnatural.

They definitely don't mean the same thing. You can want to do something even though it's not interesting. Something could be interesting but you might not want to do it.
 

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@Favorite Please check/correct your member profile. As tedmc rightly pointed out, the whole post does not come across as if it was written by a native English speaker.
 

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thank you very much
 

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Thank you very much.
Every sentence must start with a capital letter and end with an appropriate punctuation mark. Also, there is no need to write a new post to thank anyone. Hover your cursor over the "Like" button and a "Thanks" option will pop up. Just use that - it saves time for everyone.
@Favorite Please check/correct your member profile. As tedmc rightly pointed out, the whole post does not come across as if it was written by a native English speaker.
You still haven't dealt with this.
 
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