Paixao Quotes

“- Não é o que tu cuidas que me falta. Estou velha, também. O tempo dessas alegrias já passou.

- Então não te entendo...”
― Miguel Torga, Contos Da Montanha

“Quero ser a sua Colombina,
E fazer da sua a minha sina.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Esses momentos de distanciamento, efêmeros, vinham de fora, eu não buscava nada disso. Muito pelo contrário, evitava situações que pudessem me tirar da minha obsessão: leituras, saídas e outras atividades que antes gostava de fazer. Desejava o ócio completo. Recusei com ímpeto uma carga extra de trabalho que meu diretor solicitou, e quase o insultei ao telefone. Sentia que estava no direito de me opor a tudo o que atrapalhasse uma entrega sem limites às sensações e narrativas imaginárias da minha paixão.
No trem, no metrô, nas salas de espera, em qualquer lugar em que é permitido ficar à toa, logo que eu me sentava, começava a fantasiar com A. No momento exato em que entrava nesse estado, minha cabeça era invadida por um espasmo de felicidade. Tinha a impressão de me abandonar a um prazer físico, como se o cérebro, sob o afluxo repetido das mesmas imagens, das mesmas lembranças, pudesse ter um orgasmo, como se fosse um órgão sexual similar aos outros.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“O tempo todo me assaltava o desejo de terminar, para não ter mais que ficar à mercê de uma chamada, para não sofrer mais, e logo imaginava o que viria com o término: uma sequência de dias sem nada para esperar. Então preferia continuar, ainda que a um custo alto — que ele tivesse outra mulher, ou várias (isto é, um sofrimento ainda maior que aquele que me levava a querer deixá-lo). Porém, se comparada ao vazio vislumbrado, minha situação presente parecia feliz, e meu ciúme era uma espécie de privilégio frágil cujo fim eu fora louca de desejar, já que cedo ou tarde esse fim chegaria, independentemente da minha vontade, quando ele fosse embora ou me abandonasse, ele, sempre ele.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“The illustrious and influential Sigmund Freud dismissed romantic love as merely sex urge blocked. Pioneer sexologist Havelock Ellis provided his famous and entirely incorrect mathematical formula: sex plus friendship. (It seems to be neither.) Contemporary sex researchers seldom discuss love since they view sex and love as quite distinct from each other. Psychoanalytic writers have disagreed with each other as well as with the master, Freud. Theodore Reik asserted that sex and love are quite different, although the usual interpretation of Freudian concepts is that they are fused. Psychoanalyst Robert Seidenberg comments that the only similarity he could think of is that neither makes sense. In books with the word “love” in their titles, two of the most widely read writers on mental and emotional life managed to virtually avoid the subject of romantic love: Erich Fromm, in the Art of Loving, dismisses “falling in love” as a clearly unsatisfactory, as well as “explosive,” way to overcome “separateness”; and Rollo May, in his best-selling book Love and Will, forces the reader to search for romantic love in the interstices between sexual, procreational, friendly, and altruistic loves. The general view seemed to be that romantic love is mysterious, mystical, even sacred, and not capable, apparently, of being subjected to the cool gaze of scientific inquiry.”
― Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

“Limerence is not mere sexual attraction. Although something you may interpret as sexual attraction may be, or seem to be, the first feeling, sometimes nothing you would label sexual interest is ever consciously felt. Sex is neither essential nor, in itself, adequate to satisfy the limerent need. But sex is never entirely excluded in the limerent passion, either. Limerence is a desire for more than sex, and a desire in which the sexual act may represent the symbol of its highest achievement: reciprocation. Reciprocation expressed through physical union creates the ecstatic and blissful condition called “the greatest happiness,” and the most profound glorification of the achievement of limerent aims.”
― Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

“Limerence has certain basic components:
• intrusive thinking about the object of your passionate desire (the limerent object or “LO”), who is a possible sexual partner
• acute longing for reciprocation
• dependency of mood on LO’s actions or, more accurately, your interpretation of LO’s actions with respect to the probability of reciprocation
• inability to react limerently to more than one person at a time (exceptions occur only when limerence is at low ebb—early on or in the last fading)
• some fleeting and transient relief from unrequited limerent passion through vivid imagination of action by LO that means reciprocation
• fear of rejection and sometimes incapacitating but always unsettling shyness in LO’s presence, especially in the beginning and whenever uncertainty strikes
• intensification through adversity (at least, up to a point)
• acute sensitivity to any act or thought or condition that can be interpreted favorably, and an extraordinary ability to devise or invent “reasonable” explanations for why the neutrality that the disinterested observer might see is in fact a sign of hidden passion in the LO
• an aching of the “heart” (a region in the center front of the chest) when uncertainty is strong
• buoyancy (a feeling of walking on air) when reciprocation seems evident
• a general intensity of feeling that leaves other concerns in the background
• a remarkable ability to emphasize what is truly admirable in LO and to avoid dwelling on the negative, even to respond with a compassion for the negative and render it, emotionally if not perceptually, into another positive attribute.”
― Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

“Just as all roads once led to Rome, when your limerence for someone has crystallized, all events, associations, stimuli, experience return your thoughts to LO with unnerving consistency. At the moment of awakening after the night’s sleep, an image of LO springs into your consciousness. And you find yourself inclined to remain in bed pursuing that image and the fantasies that surround and grow out of it. Your daydreams persist throughout the day and are involuntary. Extreme effort of will to stop them produces only temporary surcease.”
― Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

“In summary, limerent fantasy is, most of all, intrusive and inescapable. It seems not to be something you do, but something that happens. Most involuntary are the flash visions in which LO is reciprocating. Compelling, seductive, tempting, or even, as one man described them, “tantalizing,” the longer limerent fantasy is a deliberate attempt to achieve relief of the limerent yearning through imagining consummation in a context of possible events. Limerent fantasy is unsatisfactory unless firmly rooted in reality. Sometimes it is retrospective; actual events are replayed in memory. This form predominates when what is viewed as evidence of possible reciprocation can be reexperienced. Otherwise, the long fantasy is anticipatory; it begins in your everyday world and climaxes at the attainment of the limerent goal. The intrusive “flashes” may be symbolic; you find LO’s indication of returned feelings expressed by a look, a word, a handclasp, or embrace. The long fantasies form a bridge between your ordinary life and that intensely desired ecstatic moment. The two types of fantasy are ends of a continuum, not mutually exclusive. The duration and complexity of a fantasy often seem to depend on how much time and freedom from distraction is available. The bliss of the imagined moment of consummation is greater when events imagined to precede it are believed in. In fact, of course, they often represent grave departures from the probable, as an outside observer might estimate them.”
― Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

“ENTREGA

Abandonar o corpo à pessoa amada
para que faça dele o que quiser.
Não opor qualquer resistência
entregar-se natural, suavemente.
O outro sabe as veredas
como o rio desce encostas
para seu gozo no mar.

Abandonar o corpo ao outro
para que invente, projete
pontes de suspiros,
liberte seus demônios e poemas
e se converta em anjo
num ruflar de penas.

Abandonar o corpo à sorte alheia
fundida à própria sorte,
dissolver-se no corpo alheio
como quem na vida, dissolve a morte.”
― Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Textamentos

“SE É PAIXÃO, ME NEGO

Se é paixão, me nego.
Já resvalei, a alma em pelo
nesse áspero despenhadeiro.
Se é paixão, não quero.
Conheço seus espinhos de mel,
sei aonde conduz
embora prometa os céus.

Se é paixão, desculpe-me, não posso
conheço suas insônias
e a obsessão.

Se é paixão me vou, não devo,
não adiantam teus apelos.
Resistirei, porque aí
morri mil vezes.
Paixão é arma de três gumes,
ao seu corte estou imune.

Se é paixão me nego
e não receio que me acuses
de medo. Do desvario
conheço todos os segredos.
Se é paixão recuso-me
e sinto muito,
pois foi há custo
que saí do labirinto.”
― Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Textamentos