Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage and feel. He makes love like he's in touch with himself, who he is. And he's a very sensual, incredible lovemaker.
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.
A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
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