“Don’t condemn sensuality. It has been condemned by the whole world, and because of their condemnation, the energy that can flower in sensuality moves into perversions, jealousy, anger, hatred — a kind of life which is dry, with no juice. Sensuousness is one of the greatest blessings to humanity. It is your sensitivity, […]
“Sometimes you’re the windshield; sometimes you’re the bug.”
Mark Knopfler
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements.
Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its […]
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, […]
“What’s the difference between art and pornography? . . . a government grant!
Peter Griffin
“Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens.”
Franz Kafka
“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
André Bazin
Image: François Truffaut directing Claude Jade in Domicile Conjugal, 1970
“Women never bought Freud’s idea of penis envy. Who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”
Natalie Angier
“Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even know each other. Yet the vast majority of males in our society are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who […]
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