What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our days -- not just the showgirl, the femme fatale, and the ingenue, but all the ...
When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and left the apartment, I sometimes thought that Füsun was also taking care not to get “carried away” by her feelings for me. A proper understanding of my story depends, I think, on a full appr...
The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in this system as the appropriate objects of male penetration with no consideration for their personhood or plea...
That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of p...
By appealing to his imagination, a pornographic novel brings the reader’s body into play; libertine fiction appeals only to his mind. The goal of the former is erotic pleasure, or rather the desire to experience erotic pleasure, which the pornograp...
For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of ...
I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we're nothing more than friends. The first time I touched you with sexual intent...
My greatest fear is failure.
My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!
There is a certain pleasure in weeping
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.
Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.
Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
