"For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair."

-- Lillian B. Rubin

#Sex Quotes #Self Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Deception is everywhere.”

Source : "Questions for Kryptos' Creator". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. January 20, 2005.
“Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.”
“He screamed for all he had lost...screamed for the half male he was...screamed for Jane...screamed for who his parents were and what he wished for his sister...screamed for what he had forced his best friend to do...He screamed, and screamed until there was no breath, no consciousness, no nothing. No past or present. Not even himself anymore. And in the midst of the chaos, in the strangest way, he became free.”
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
“I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.”
“Wishes are recollections coming from the future.”
“I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.”
“The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.”

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