Sensuality Quotes - Page 5

• Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Unapologetic, Way, Film

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• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Ambition, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2800, Delphi Classics

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• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Sloth

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.205, Bibliolis Books

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• Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Mean, Lust, Different

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• [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

  Molly Haskell

  Sex, Gone, Passing

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• I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Pain, Mean, Life Experience

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

  Agnes Repplier

  Responsibility, Vices, Half

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• There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

  Paul Theroux

  Romance, Associates

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Virtue, Sexuality

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• I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Writing, Focus

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Confused, Lying

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Flesh And Blood

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.159, Xist Publishing

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• Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Fall, Hands

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.78, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

  Shailene Woodley

  Self, America, Failing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Right now everything is pumped up. Cars look like someone took an air pump and pumped them up. They look engorged. Lips pumped up, breasts pumped up, everything is pumped up. And it's also kind of off-putting. It's sexual but in such a hard way that it's, for me, not sexual at all. Whereas the 1970s, breasts were smaller. People were not wearing bras. Farrah Fawcett's sexuality and sensuality was a very touchable sexuality. She was kissable. She was friendly.

  Tom Ford

  People, Car, Friendly

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

  Fernando Botero

  Real, Giving, Sculpture

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• Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Evil, Sensual

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• Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

  Rebecca West

  Wise, Dog, Writing

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• When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reptiles, Mouths, Sin

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .

  Jeff Koons

  Sex, Believe, Reality

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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• There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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