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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadism, Instinct, Impulse

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Three, Elements

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 801, Notebook W II 1. KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4, Fall 1888.

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Feminism, Female

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

  Riccardo Tisci

  People, Culture, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Country, Fighting, Epidemics

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

  Derek Jarman

  Men, Hopeless, Odd

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

  Donna Summer

  Erotic, Sensual, Levels

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sexy, Fun, Different

  "Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

  Boy George

  Years, Two, Lasts

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Confused, Responsibility, Men

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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• It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

  Mortimer Adler

  Selfish, Giving, Lust

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• My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

  Portia de Rossi

  Totality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.

  Cheryl Clarke

  America, Males, Culture

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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• Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

  Hugh Hefner

  Way, Revolution, Normal

  "A Visit with 'Playboy' Founder Hugh Hefner". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 6, 2003.

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• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

  Francesca Annis

  Celebration, Companionship, Enough

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• Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

  Ang Lee

  Honesty, Issues, Being Honest

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• After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Play, America

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sexiness, Performances

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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