14 quotes found
“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
“She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.”
“He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.”
“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invente...”
“Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it...”
“And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.”
“You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,’ I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half...”
“Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.”
“I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rath...”
“When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshies...”
“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hur...”
