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• Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Men, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Mean, Two

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

  Harold Town

  Art, Athlete, Hockey

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• Um, Dr. Alexander, there’s a couple out here who say they’re related to you. They…um…they’re biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we’re okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Couple, Nurse

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Broken, Links, Logos

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.150, Routledge

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• It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True Word must make ourselves known in every way we can, to show clearly the strength of our solidarity.

  Gustavo Esteva

  Way, Sides, Solidarity

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• Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Powerful, Crazy, People

  Interview with Greg Gerke, therumpus.net. December 05, 2011.

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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• The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives.

  John Friend

  Color, Creative Juices, People

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• the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

  Hakim Bey

  Fall, Glasses, Water

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.54, Autonomedia

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• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Cities, Voice

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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• Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Roaming

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Desire, Too Late

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Long, Soul

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• Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Deceit, Naked, Body

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1987). “Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction”

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• Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Night, Opposites

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• The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

  Rollo May

  Sex, Creative, Example

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

  Dean Young

  Mean, Errors, Mirrors

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

  Steven Erikson

  Jobs, Men, Flames

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• Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

  Anne Carson

  Character, Being In Love, Reality

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Emotional, Democracy, Source

  Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel H. Flowerman (1964). “The Authoritarian Personality: Studies in Prejudice”

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• What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

  Erica Jong

  Love And Death, Paradox, Love Poetry

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