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“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”

Soul Might Artist Choices Doors Objects Lovers Taste Obsession Revealing Our Choices

Author:Vince Aletti

“Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything”

Ifs Wells Made Used Strong Lovers Taste Ultimate Missions Headache Cigar Cuban Scotch Whisky Smokers Connoisseur Acquired Taste Scotch Whisky Cuban Cigars

Author:Marvin Shanken

“I would say that I'm a really eclectic music lover, so I love the fact that one month I will be doing one kind of music and the next month I will be doing something very different and I think that really works for me in terms of my own personal tastes and styles.”

Thinking Kind Different Facts Next Term My Own Style Months Lovers Taste Eclectic Music Lover Personal Taste

Author:Christopher Lennertz

“During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.”

Art Term Youth Painting Masters Lovers Taste Abuse Critics Offensive Good Taste Insipid Renowned Art Lovers

Book:The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

Source: The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

“I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.”

Hard Animal Dog Example Lovers Taste Cat Meat Hard Times Plates Sprouts Cat And Dog Brussels Animal Lover Brussel Sprouts

Author:Kristen Bell

“If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.”

Ifs Knows Lovers Taste Thousand Kissing Denied Flavor Wretched Invoke

Author:Italo Calvino

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.”

Firsts Heart Dream Brain Lovers Taste Pages Smell Betray Exes Zombie Ex Lover

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”

Want Love Lasts Faces Lying Hours Morning Tears Hair Arms Lovers Taste Kissing Skins Breaths Finals Smell Noon Your Smile Nightfall Want To See You

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.”

Enemy Lovers Taste Deserve Lips Punishment My Sister Killers Oblivion My Lover

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.”

Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame