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“I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.”

Dream Romance Sides Five Fool Solitude Essence Rose Tongue Fats Hips Flames Pockets Cheeks Nails Satin Musk Mink Cognac

Book:Jazz fan looks back

Source: Jazz fan looks back

“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

Heart Ends Care Romance Lying Stuff Justice Fiction Moral Fine Reader Lessons Conversation Essence Revenge Hungry Manners Good Man Repentance Sentiments Good Manners

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.”

Needs May Dream Romance Lying Air Lovers Essence Bottom Passionate Lovely Arise Islands Organized Subtle Flood

Book:A Woman of Genius

Source: A Woman of Genius

“Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'”

Looks May Art Important Enough Shows Romance Essence Embrace Foolish Vulnerability Flaws Willingness This Is Me

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

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Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”

Way Believe Romance Life Is Dangerous Morality Battle Essence Tragedy Greek Preparedness Howards End

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.”

Love May Happiness Romance Love Is Wonderful Sadness Essence Romantic Love Impossibility Romanticism

Book:A friend from England

Source: A friend from England

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”

Ifs Trying Believe May Facts Romance I Believe Forget Married Essence Accepted Uncertainty Excitement Definite Earnest Proposal Very Romantic Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

Different Romance Next Essence Conviction Next Time Unshakable

Book:The Many Deaths of the Black Company

Source: The Many Deaths of the Black Company

“To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.”

Persons Romance Kissing Essence Dating

Author:Giacomo Casanova