"Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love."

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Source : "Wonderful, Wonderful Times". Book by Elfriede Jelinek, 1990.

Elfriede Jelinek

#Kissing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Two Quotes

“It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.”
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So much of performing is a mind game.”
“Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.”

Source : Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”
“Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.”
“Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.”
“Everything family does is reflection on the other people.”
“Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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