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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they read more
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene read more
The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him read more
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking read more
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
