"The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves."

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Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

#May Quotes #Voluptuous Quotes #Chastity Quotes

“The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.”
“I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!”
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”
“A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015
“to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics
“This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.”
“I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.”

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