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“Clo was looking like the cat who got the cream, the kippers, the peanut butter, the sliced chicken and a lifetime's supply of genetically engineered slow-moving mice.”

Book:The Gap of Time

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The Gap of Time

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a renowned British author known for her distinctive literary style and profound social commentary. Her works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and poetry. Winterson's novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a story about growth, faith, and sexuality that has received widespread acclaim. more

“Pleasure and pain are the great objects of desire and aversion: but these are distinguished not by reason, but by immediate sense and feeling. If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling.”

Reason Pain Pleasure Feeling

Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Show a little bit of skin, but not too much.” Mastering the energetics of DESIRE is a seduction game.”

Desire Pleasure Relationship Quotes Sensuality Sensual Intimacy Seduction Feminine Energy Feminine Woman

Author:Lebo Grand

“Competition does not drive me. I do things better for pleasure and without trying. I mistakenly studied difficult subjects that were no use to me when I might have studied the arts for pleasure, which would have smoothed my path. I wasted time trying to be good at math. I taught myself the things that mattered to me most: to write and to take pictures.”

Writing Artist Pleasure Education Learning Ambition Photography Competition Creative Process Self Taught

Book:Autoportrait

Source: Autoportrait

“Many souls seek for pleasure than purity but it is necessary to look for pure joy.”