"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on sex   

"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on sex
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"Skill makes love unending."

Ovid on sex
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"You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered."

Paglia, Camille on sex
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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

Steinem, Gloria on sex
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"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

Descartes, Rene on insults
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"He who puts up with insult invites injury."

Proverb, Jewish on insults   

"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."

Day, Doris on men
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"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim."

Friedan, Betty on men   

"Macho doesn't prove mucho."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on men
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire on lies and lying
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"All oppression creates a state of war."

Beauvoir, Simone De on oppression   

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on kisses and kissing
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"Kisses honeyed by oblivion."

Eliot, George on kisses and kissing   

"I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you."

Smith, Byron Caldwell on kisses and kissing
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"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Davies, Robertson on eyes
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"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Blake, William on excess
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"He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence."

Blake, William on desire
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"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

Fromm, Erich on greed
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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

Malcolm X on greed
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"It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on greed   

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."

Bataille, Georges on pleasure
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"In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pleasure   

"Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure."

Virgil on pleasure   

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern."

Blake, William on perception
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Jung, Carl on individuality
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

Jung, Carl on mind
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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."

Jung, Carl on vision
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Jung, Carl on cooperation
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"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on art
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on risk   

"One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

Gardner, John W. on risk
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"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Ovid on risk
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"Love without attachment is light."

Brown, Norman O. on love
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