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• Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.

  Jean Genet

  Night, Play, Voice

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

  Jess C Scott

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• Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Love Is, Contemplation, Form

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• There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

  Paul Reubens

  Art, Dirty, Views

  "Pee-wee actor denies paedophile claims". www.abc.net.au. April 1, 2004.

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• We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

  Audre Lorde

  Moving, Thinking, Kinky

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

  Roger Ebert

  Wonder, Ifs

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• In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

  Nora Ephron

  Cute, Sex, Mind

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.25, Vintage

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• For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

  Molly Haskell

  Haskell, Understood

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• Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

  Marina Warner

  Romance, Greek, Suffering

  Marina Warner (2015). “L'Atalante”, p.16, Palgrave Macmillan

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• pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

  Audre Lorde

  Feelings, Denial, Suppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ivory, Mountain

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

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• The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Males, Female

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• A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Powerful, Expression, Personality

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• My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.

  Huang E

  Night, Clouds, Dancing

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• And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Hymns, White

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Amores: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

  Ben Elton

  Beautiful, Real, Imagination

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• The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fire, Sensual, Rage

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• You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

  Grace Paley

  Long, Mind, Knows

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.205, Macmillan

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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Purple, Velvet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross

  Kim Deal

  Sweet, Thinking, Pigs

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• Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Sex, World

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.195, Penguin

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• Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Excellence, Desire, Needs

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• I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wine, Luxury, Feelings

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• The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

  Antonio Machado

  Traffic, Sensibility

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soul, Devastation, Vandalism

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