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#1

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: mistakes, timidity

140 likes

#2

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

2055 likes

#3

“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
― Casanova, The Story of My Life

tags: pleasure

93 likes

#4

“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: freedom, love

54 likes

#5

“Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.”
― Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life

tags: desire, pleasure

33 likes

#6

“Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse. You perhaps suppose that I am a man of high birth, and I am of a rank either lower than your own or equal to it. I have no talent which can earn money, no employment, no reason to be sure that I shall have anything to eat a few months hence. I have neither relatives nor friends nor rightful claims nor any settled plan. In short, all that I have is youth, health, courage, a modicum of intelligence, a sense of honor and of decency, with a little reading and the bare beginnings of a career in literature. My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes. My nature tends toward extravagance. Such is the man I am. Now answer me, my beautiful Teresa.”
― Casanova Giacomo

tags: memoirs

23 likes

#7

“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

288 likes

#8

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom

952 likes

#9

“People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: happiness, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living, love, lust, lust-for-everything, lust-for-life, lustful, lusting, lusts, lusty, passion, passionate-life, passionate-living, passions

456 likes

#10

“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, amour, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, desire, devotion, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, longing, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, lust, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, paramour, passion, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, romance, romanticism, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

940 likes

#11

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: desire, love, lust, starvation

370 likes

#12

“I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: lust, sex

311 likes

#13

“In love the other is important; in lust you are important”
― Osho

tags: love, lust

199 likes

#14

“Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,
Comme une étoffe vacillante,
Miroiter la peau!

Sur ta chevelure profonde
Aux acres parfums,
Mer odorante et vagabonde
Aux flots bleus et bruns,

Comme un navire qui s'éveille
Au vent du matin,
Mon âme rêveuse appareille
Pour un ciel lointain.

Tes yeux où rien ne se révèle
De doux ni d'amer,
Sont deux bijoux froids où se mêlent
L’or avec le fer.

A te voir marcher en cadence,
Belle d'abandon,
On dirait un serpent qui danse
Au bout d'un bâton.

Sous le fardeau de ta paresse
Ta tête d'enfant
Se balance avec la mollesse
D’un jeune éléphant,

Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge
Comme un fin vaisseau
Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge
Ses vergues dans l'eau.

Comme un flot grossi par la fonte
Des glaciers grondants,
Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte
Au bord de tes dents,

Je crois boire un vin de bohême,
Amer et vainqueur,
Un ciel liquide qui parsème
D’étoiles mon coeur!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: beauty, poems, snakes

19 likes

#15

“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

tags: belief, believe, compassion, disguised, excitement, freedom, friendship, goodness, happiness, hate, hidden, honesty, hope, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, jealousy, joy, kindness, love, masks, one, peace, people, philosophy, quotes-to-live-by, snakes, speaking, trustworthy, truth, understanding, words-of-inspiration, words-of-wisdom, yourself

26 likes

#16

“I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: betrayal, heartbreak, love, snake, snakes

11 likes

#17

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
― Roman Payne

tags: art, artistic, creativity, equations, gifts, ideas, inspiration, literature, math, mathematical, mathematics, muse, muses, mysteries, mystery, payne, sleep, sleeping, waking

166 likes

#18

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”
― Plato, Phaedo

tags: awaken, madness, muse, poetry, soul

62 likes

#19

“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
― Kerry Greenwood

tags: muse, writing

66 likes

#20

“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do!”
― Jelalludin Rumi

tags: muse, seelie, unseelie

36 likes

#21

“I do not write about love
as if I have invented it.
I write about love
because thoughts of you
inspire self-forgetfulness.
And because writing about you
gives birth to a star.
These stars sit inside me
where there was once
darkness.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, darkness, love-poems, love-poetry, love-quotes, lover, muse, oneness, soulmate, star

52 likes

#22

“What if you lose your muse?
Your mind will keep searching for an unknown palm, an empty core of clustered starry moisture, a broken harmony of a long lost song.
Your heart will trample across moments, scattered here and there hoping to smile through a blank verse, an unmade sculpture, a void cosmos walking through a violet sky.
And your soul?
That, a sparkle of a crimson sun will dance along the glitter of a fragmentary dream, and in a love that clutches you in transience of an eternity, hold your breath in a paradise of a vibrant vision, and there you will find your muse again, once again.
So what if you lose your muse?”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

tags: art, cosmos, dream, life, life-philosophy, loss, love-quotes, muse, soul-quotes

3 likes

#23

“She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people.”
― Avijeet Das

tags: deep-thoughts, girl-quotes, hope, inspirational-life, life-and-living-life-philosophy, love-quotes-and-sayings, muse, romance-love, sunflower

17 likes

#24

“The true taste of a woman is not in her body or beauty, it's in her sensual energy.”
― Lebo Grand

tags: beauty, desire, muse, passion, relationship-quotes, sensual-energy, sensuality, taste

1 likes

#25

“You are my addiction
You are my muse
My worst distraction
My poetry & hues”
― Avijeet Das

tags: addiction, distraction, hues, love-quotes, muse, poetry, poets-on-poetry, romance, valentine-s-day

4 likes

#26

“Poetry Is The Language Of Mysticism &
Discourse. It Is The Whisper In The Dark,
The Shadow In The Light. Poetry Is An Incantation From The Depths Of Your Very Soul.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz Poems R.M. Engelhardt

tags: darklands, incantations, muse, mysticism, poetics, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, spells, spirituality, wicca

4 likes

#27

“Wild fires blaze within her soul,
there's where all her passion rises from...”
― Avijeet Das

tags: deep-love, life-and-living-life-philosophy, love-quotes-and-sayings, muse, passion, soul, wildfire, womanhood

4 likes

#28

“Wild fires blaze within her soul,
there's where all her passions rise from...”
― Avijeet Das

tags: blaze, love-quotes-and-sayings, lovers-love-story, muse, passions, soul, wildfires, woman, womanhood

1 likes

#29

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: frustration, humor, laughter

2182 likes