She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
You can't make love without art.
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change.
Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then you go beyond sex, you go beyond body, you go beyond mind. And for the first time you become aware of godliness, of ecstasy, of bliss, of truth, of liberation.
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.
I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.
It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
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