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• His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Jealous, Eye, Grieving

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• When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Nuts, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.462, Delacorte Press

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• The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fire, Abiding, Poison

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.286, Penguin UK

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• Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Fighting, Hands, Poetry Is

  1972 'Poetry Lives', in the Sunday Times,13 Feb.

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• May an elephant caress you with his toes

  'Little' Jimmy Dickens

  Elephants, May, Toes

  Song: May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose

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• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Suffering, Tears

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Play, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Understanding, Able, Firsts

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• It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.

  Joseph Parker

  Beautiful, Book, Men

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

  Jose Bergamin

  Love, Strong, Weak

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• Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Honesty, Liberty

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• Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Children, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Рипол Классик

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• Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Feelings, Stones, Information

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Cutting, Twenties

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

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• I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

  Bob Marley

  Sweet, Laughing, Serious

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• In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

  Jessamyn West

  Children, Cat, Animal

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Faith, Daughter, Exercise

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

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• Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Heart, Winter, Hands

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• You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Thinking, Done

  Song: I Wonder What Happened to Him, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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