“You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood.”
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“No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies...”
― The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
― The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained.”
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“And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...”
― The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
― The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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