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“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”

Book:On Bullshit

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“Here is the problem: You can only desire something you don’t have—that’s how desire works. And we had each other. Resolutely. Neither of us with a stray glance at another. After Adam and I were married, when I’d go out into the world, I’d see that the men I found myself drawn to were almost replicas of Adam, just like that guy in Lisbon. I wanted nothing different. I just missed the longing. We are not supposed to want the longing, but there it is. So what do you do with that?”

Desire Relationships

Book:Fleishman Is in Trouble

Source: Fleishman Is in Trouble

“For my work is my art. It’s a timeless painting of visions of ecstasy depicting women’s desire to feel sensual.”

Art Desire Passion Painting Sensuality Sensual Intimacy Vision Of Ecstasy

Author:Lebo Grand

“For my work is art. It’s a timeless painting of visions of ecstasy depicting women’s inherent desire to feel sensual.”

Art Desire Passion Painting Sensuality Sensual Intimacy Vision Of Ecstasy

Author:Lebo Grand

“Under his grip, he felt her soft flesh beneath his fingertips, and her scent infiltrated his nose. The very flesh on his fingers and palm burned, itched, and pined to explore more. More of her arm, more of skin, more of her body, just more of her. That simple touch and she overwhelmed him. Suddenly she surrounded him and it was all because of that simple touch.”

Love Desire Magic Lust Wanting

Book:Blood of Dragons

Source: Blood of Dragons

“I was like a fish on a hook. An inanimate object had more power over my life than I did. The desire for that tiny, fleeting buzz replaced my will for anything else.”

Desire Buzz Fish On A Hook

Book:Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“You are so hot. You do so many things to me, have you no consideration for me at all?” he whispered softly in her ear, she let out a soft moan, not saying a word.”

Love Romance Desire Lovers Steamy Romance

Author:AJ CHANNING

“Sensuality is the lover’s energy.”

Love Romance Desire Passion Lovers Relationship Quotes Sensuality Sensual

Author:Lebo Grand

“From the outset the Buddhist tradition has been divided between the most uncompromising moral rigorism and a subversion of all ideals in the name of a higher truth, transcending good and evil. Māhāyana Buddhism, in particular, argued that the ultimate truth can be discovered only by those who awaken to the reality of desire and are able to transmute it.”

Desire Buddhism

Book:The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality

Source: The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality

“Yes, I thought, this is what I wanted, this is what I had truly imagined; to be desirable, to be beautiful and seductive, and at the same time to be completely powerful, in control, able to give glimpses of myself to strangers that would haunt them for a long time afterwards, when I wanted, when I chose, and to conceal myself or cut those glimpses short equally as I chose.”

Desire Fantasy Sexiness Body Positivity To Be Seen

Book:The Erotic Notebooks

Source: The Erotic Notebooks

“A winter storm. dramatic weather of any season often precipitates intimacy: two startled bodies seeking shelter in each other. On her livingroom couch Mrs. Moreno's bunched kimono rises & falls like a silken sea above her drowning Hispanic student.”

Love Desire Sex Intimacy Bodies

Book:Thirteen: Stories

Source: Thirteen: Stories

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