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• Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

  Aberjhani

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Emotional

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• The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.

  Audre Lorde

  Confused, Men, Psychotic

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

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• Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (1991). “Paper Darts”

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• Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

  Esther Perel

  Motivation, Inspiration, Night

  "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

  Saul Bellow

  Sex, Practice, People

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

  Lucas Samaras

  Art, Sex, Giving Up

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• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  Karen McDougal

  Kissing, Guy, Needs

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• Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.

  Thom Yorke

  Underwear, Delight, Narnia

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• I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kissing, Simple, Criticism

  "Steven Spielberg Admits That He Softened Lesbian Sex In 'The Color Purple'" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  Naomi Wolf

  Desire, Sexiness, Defined

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• Shared laughter is erotic too.

  Marge Piercy

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Prayer, Memories, Dark

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• A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sick, Healthy

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Growing Up, Father

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• A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Order, Punishment, Needs

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• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Dancing, Creative, Energy

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.55, Crossing Press

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• No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.

  Daphne Merkin

  Sex, Rights, Imagination

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• The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.

  Esther Perel

  Mom, Sexy, Mother

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Gossip, Flavor, Bears

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Curiosity, Meals, Dessert

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

  Jock Sturges

  Sensual, Birth, Obvious

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Desire, Roles

  Octavio Paz (1998). “An Erotic Beyond: Sade”, Harcourt

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